On Jun 20, 2003 at 16:03, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Legally, you cant transfer the blame, but if you can transfer it as far as the bosses are concerned, that would be enough.
That's a pretty good point. I'd like to add a data point. We use Debian. We have a few RH boxes. We have Windows boxes. But in my group, our primary OS is Debian. Of course, one of our interface guys prefers to use Windows (and you can usually hear a lot of swearing from his desk) but that's not the point right now.
We like Debian for all the usual reasons. apt-get is close to magic. Don't trot out RH's autoupdate thing. I've heard of it.
Of course, with us, support isn't an issue because we are support. I think some of the users, who get tech support from a different group, also use Debian. Our boss just switched to Debian.
OTOH, one of the support guys tried to install Debian on a box with RAID, and can't get it to work. It works fine with RH.