Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

On 06/26/2013 10:40 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>> Hello:
>> I noticed that in my country supercomputer center all machines, both CPU
>> (FERMI) and GPU (AURORA, PLX) run on RedHat Linux. As a long time user of
>> Debian GNU Linux amd64, I am curious whether such machines elsewhere also
>> run, or could run, on Debian am64. If not, why? A problem of kernel?
> Some people want someone to blame if there are problems, or to demand
> support from if they need something solved right away.  Redhat will sell
> you support contracts and will solve problems.  But you pay for it.
>
> If you like doing it yourself or to solve things by cooporating with
> the community instead, then Debian works great.
>
> I certainly have the impression that locations that have their own IT
> people that understand the system and want to be in control of their
> own situation tend to run Debian (or a Debian derived system), while
> those that just want things solved and don't care to have the expertise
> themselves tend to run Redhat enterprise linux instead.  After all if
> you have the people and a large installation, the support contract with
> redhat could pay for a lot of competent IT staff.
>
Frankly it's like dredging up the Microsoft versus open source  debate,  
Microsoft /Redhat answer the questions atr the end user/client beckon 
call where as Debian or other open source /crowd sourced  projects take 
the mailing list and fourm based support approach. IMHO i think the 
truly community driven alternative software in general is a very 
educational and democratic way to distribute, manage and maintain 
superior Information Systems/ Information technology products. All of 
this bbeing said I under stand however that in the modern corporate 
is/it infomation these decisions are made based upon the venders ability 
to solve problems asap thus maintaining a maximum up time , quasi low 
cost and maximum  cost total cost of owner ship

For me the migration to Debian/OSS was easy i wanted to get the amximum 
life span for my equipment  dollar and trust  me after putting darn 
near  half a grand on my current  lap top machine and 8gb of ram 
(crucial/micron technologies). I settled on Debian and opensource 
software for  good.