[Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

[Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz]

Just for the records,

Im using mga2 in servers

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Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> escribió:

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>On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote:
>> On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than 
>>> happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on
>>> the server as well as on workstations. ... Has anyone any
>>> relevant experience?
>>> 
>> 
>> Been using Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia for servers, approx.
>> since 2001. So far, had no reason to move to any other distro
>> (except for prejudiced admins against a "desktop" / RPM distros).
>> 
>> On a recent incident, I had to move some service from a RHEL6
>> server to a humble Mga1 box, in order to gain in performance (rh
>> did use older, less efficient versions). In a similar tone, vanilla
>> Debian couldn't install there (because of the firmware for its
>> NIC).
>> 
>Thanks, everyone.  Most reassuring.  The main objection against using
>a desktop rather than an enterprise distro is that users see the
>desktop one as more likely to get "broken".  My experience has been
>the opposite.  The enterprise distros spread packages over a number of
>repos, which clash with each other, so that sooner or later an update
>breaks things catastrophically.  I learned through bitter experience,
>and next time took great care to google for what looked like an
>authoritative instruction on how to "prioritize" the repos - and my
>system is once again broken beyond repair, or at least, I'm told that
>repairing will be so long and painful it's not worth trying.
>
>I don't aim to get bitten a third time.
>
>Anne
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