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<div><div>Just for the records,</div><div><br/></div><div>Im using mga2 in servers</div><div><br/></div><div><font style="color:#333333">Enviado desde mi DROID 4G LTE de Verizon Wireless</font></div></div><br><br>Anne Wilson &lt;annew@kde.org&gt; escribió:<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote:<br>&gt; On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:<br>&gt;&gt; My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than <br>&gt;&gt; happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on<br>&gt;&gt; the server as well as on workstations. ... Has anyone any<br>&gt;&gt; relevant experience?<br>&gt;&gt; <br>&gt; <br>&gt; Been using Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia for servers, approx.<br>&gt; since 2001. So far, had no reason to move to any other distro<br>&gt; (except for prejudiced admins against a "desktop" / RPM distros).<br>&gt; <br>&gt; On a recent incident, I had to move some service from a RHEL6<br>&gt; server to a humble Mga1 box, in order to gain in performance (rh<br>&gt; did use older, less efficient versions). In a similar tone, vanilla<br>&gt; Debian couldn't install there (because of the firmware for its<br>&gt; NIC).<br>&gt; <br>Thanks, everyone.&nbsp; Most reassuring.&nbsp; The main objection against using<br>a desktop rather than an enterprise distro is that users see the<br>desktop one as more likely to get "broken".&nbsp; My experience has been<br>the opposite.&nbsp; The enterprise distros spread packages over a number of<br>repos, which clash with each other, so that sooner or later an update<br>breaks things catastrophically.&nbsp; I learned through bitter experience,<br>and next time took great care to google for what looked like an<br>authoritative instruction on how to "prioritize" the repos - and my<br>system is once again broken beyond repair, or at least, I'm told that<br>repairing will be so long and painful it's not worth trying.<br><br>I don't aim to get bitten a third time.<br><br>Anne<br>- -- <br>Need KDE help? Try<br>http://userbase.kde.org or<br>http://forum.kde.org<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/<br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAlA1DrUACgkQj93fyh4cnBdsSACcD5lPpICwIfclk5agp6RPpEIS<br>mRQAn3IbIcgQUJpgVWvPX/14HCANdbjr<br>=NKkn<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Email Shield provided by NOCWorldWide.com<br>