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+ <B>Anne Wilson</B>
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+ <I>Fri Aug 24 10:59:42 CEST 2012</I>
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+On 22/08/12 18:56, nicolas vigier wrote:
+&gt;<i> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
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+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> than happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Mageia on the server as well as on workstations. ... Has
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> anyone any relevant experience?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Been using Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia for servers, approx.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> since 2001. So far, had no reason to move to any other distro
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (except for prejudiced admins against a &quot;desktop&quot; / RPM
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> distros).
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On a recent incident, I had to move some service from a RHEL6
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> server to a humble Mga1 box, in order to gain in performance
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (rh did use older, less efficient versions). In a similar
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> tone, vanilla Debian couldn't install there (because of the
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> firmware for its NIC).
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Thanks, everyone. Most reassuring. The main objection against
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> using a desktop rather than an enterprise distro is that users
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> see the
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Mageia is not a &quot;desktop distro&quot;. It can be used for desktops or
+</I>&gt;<i> servers.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>Perhaps I gave the wrong impression. I was speaking of &quot;perception&quot;
+rather than reality :-) I'd avoid bleeding edge distros for a server,
+but other than that, package selection and careful security setup
+seems to be all that's needed. Assuming, of course, that you choose a
+well-maintained distro :-)
+
+Anne
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