From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 09:39:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DD6516A401 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:39:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p00-fb.rzone.de (mo-p00-fb.rzone.de [81.169.146.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EEA13C491 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:39:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (klopstock-mo-p00-ob.mail [192.168.63.66]) by charnel-fb-06.store (RZmta 4.9) with ESMTP id 606a08j210Cxna for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:08:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (p5480F937.dip.t-dialin.net [84.128.249.55]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo54) (RZmta 4.9) with ESMTP id F04a39j218CwK4 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE24E0AA301 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19240-09 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 2055BE0AA300; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:12 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070301090712.GA21103@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <003d01c75b92$a3ae4b10$eb0ae130$@ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003d01c75b92$a3ae4b10$eb0ae130$@ca> Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de X-RZG-AUTH: l30WrtbrzmfyRJtZ7/TtK2qIdZIgjE9K4Q55TXGhenj8TX5ShWTsXpHkhlKAE7bT X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:39:44 -0000 On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:46:13PM -0500, mailing-lists@msdi.ca wrote: > Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check > ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available for several platforms, including amd64. Everything that is certified for RHEL will run without problems on CentOS. The current version is 4.4 but a new version of RHEL is expected to be released during the next weeks (which will be followed by a new version of CentOS). If you want an entirely free system with a large software repository and don't care for certifications from software or hardware vendors, I'd strongly recommend Debian Etch (will be the "stable" release in a short while). Commercial support is available from Hewlett Packard IIRC. bye, Uwe