Re: which Linux distros are dying?

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:

 > WHY I RECOMMEND DEBIAN:
 >
 > 1. It is not controlled by any company
 > 2. Superior design (Ex: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives)
 > 3. Stability (Ex: Used on the space shuttle mission STS-83)
 > 4. APT
 > 5. FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)
 >

Santhosh Kumar J wrote:

> First of all, our lab badly needed a revamp. Lots of systems just
> weren't working and there were some three NIS domains( for 35-40
> systems ), some ppl had account in just one domain and couldn't login
> is some machines and so on.. The task of doing this revamp was given
> to me. And i like debian :)  The fact that we had the debian
> repository next building(IITM ftp) also helped. I setup a FAI(Fully
> automatic installation) server and did all the client configurations
> in that (I setup ldap for authentication, which reqd editing 4-5 files
> on the clients). After that all the 40 machines installation happened
> in some 3 hours without any intervention and the systems were ready
> for use right away!

Thank you (both of you) for taking time to respond. You do bring up 
interesting points. Just another question - what RHEL were you running 
earlier ? ie what variant of RHEL ?

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