“When we pitted Red Hat Enterprise Linux against several flavors of UnitedLinux to see how each fared as an enterprise server platform, we found each edition of the popular GNU/Linux operating system to represent a distinct method on how to build bare metal into a working server. Installation is different, configuration options are different, and hardware support varies across these Linux flavors.” Read the review at NWFusion.
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Red Hat consistently recovered from simulated outages more quickly than UnitedLinux/SuSE but within the margin of error.
What the above statements really tells you is, that the time to recover from simulated outages is similar and that there can be no conclusion drawn on which system is faster since de difference in time of recovery is within the margin of error. When I read something like this and the author claims to be a scientist than I have a strong feeling of bias of the author….I’m sorry but this is not good unbiased science.
By the way I have no interest in which Distro is better….
…these kinds of reviews are pointless anyway. If someone needs service and support (and that’s what’s the point for those expensive server distributions) one better choose a company near his location, not one at the other side of the globe. All mentioned distributions are most successful in their respective own home continents which do not overlap (anymore thanks to SCO).
” The drivers that the operating system chose initially weren’t necessarily the most recent or stable versions, but Red Hat, like UnitedLinux/SuSE, doesn’t do an Internet search to find up-to-date drivers such as Windows server platforms. ”
Three comments about the previous assertion :
1. If the drivers were neither recent nor stable, what were they (outdated, buggy, …) ?
2. Linux drivers may have been released a long time ago but many work as expected, for instance those published by Scyld.
3. We have a Windows 2000 Server at work and I have yet to see it perform an internet search to find up-to-date drivers for cards like the RAID controller. Is our installation missing something or was the author pulling a fast one ?