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[delirium]

What OS runs on the majority of your servers?

At the moment we specialise in Windows 2000/2003, but will be looking into Linux in the next few months. I just wanted to find out what the majority use, I am guessing its going to be Linux.

[Patrick]

You're missing quite a few other voting options.

I run Slackware Linux and FreeBSD on my servers.

[delirium]

Slackware and FreeBSD are all different flavours of Unix, I guess It could have been worded differently, but what I was really interested in was Windows based and Linux/Unix (all flavours) based systems.

[Patrick]

Originally posted by delirium
Slackware and FreeBSD are all different flavours of Unix, I guess It could have been worded differently, but what I was really interested in was Windows based and Linux/Unix (all flavours) based systems.

Linux is NOT unix!

[pmabraham]

Greetings:

Gee, let's not get into a debate as to what is and is not UNIX --> Linux, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, et all are flavors there of... like it or not.

In our case, we manage around 50 servers (give or take). Most of them are RedHat Linux (7.2, 7.3, Enterprise WS and ES) then FreeBSD (22 servers), then Windows 2003 (about 6 or so), then Sun Solaris (handfull; though in the beginning we were 100% Solaris).

Given a choice, RedHat Linux would win any day.

Thank you.