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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?</H1>
<B>Antoine Pitrou</B>
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<I>Wed Aug 22 19:05:21 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:54:14 +0100
Anne Wilson <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">annew at kde.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>><i> On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote:
</I>><i> > On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
</I>><i> >> My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than
</I>><i> >> happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on
</I>><i> >> the server as well as on workstations. ... Has anyone any
</I>><i> >> relevant experience?
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</I>><i> > Been using Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia for servers, approx.
</I>><i> > since 2001. So far, had no reason to move to any other distro
</I>><i> > (except for prejudiced admins against a "desktop" / RPM distros).
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</I>><i> > On a recent incident, I had to move some service from a RHEL6
</I>><i> > server to a humble Mga1 box, in order to gain in performance (rh
</I>><i> > did use older, less efficient versions). In a similar tone, vanilla
</I>><i> > Debian couldn't install there (because of the firmware for its
</I>><i> > NIC).
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</I>><i> Thanks, everyone. Most reassuring. The main objection against using
</I>><i> a desktop rather than an enterprise distro is that users see the
</I>><i> desktop one as more likely to get "broken". My experience has been
</I>><i> the opposite. The enterprise distros spread packages over a number of
</I>><i> repos, which clash with each other, so that sooner or later an update
</I>><i> breaks things catastrophically.
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I don't know what "enterprise" distros are supposed to be, but IME
Debian is quite reliable on a server.
Regards
Antoine.
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