[Dovecot] OT Re: crashes on 2.0.16

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 23:18 -0500, Simon Brereton wrote:

> 
> I'm with Jim.  Debian has served me well for years.  This is just
> distro-bias.  Sure, you need modicum more sense and hands on experience,


distro holy ways will outlast the real world holy wars, we each have a
distro we all stand by, else there would only be one distro.


> but that's not bad thing in a production environment..
> 
> It would be interesting to chart the number of threads caused by each
> distro.  I don't know who would have the least, but I suspect gentoo and
> centos would be out in front, with Ubuntu panting along behind..
> 
> Simon


I'm yet to meet a debian based admin who uses source, they only seem to
think that apt is only way of installing stuff.
They are scared of conflicts, who knows.  Most the servers in the DC's
I've run or worked in are all either freebsd, RHEL, slackware or gentoo,
the later two being my personal favourites, that said, I do use ubuntu
LTS on pc's/laptop, if there was no LTS however, I'd likely go back to
fedora.



> > Ahhh just before I hit send I remember one, debian, like windows, is an
> > ideal distro on a server in a Colo that charges for remote hands (incl
> > reboots), cause they have the highest fail rate.
> >
> > Most stable OS's from colo are freebsd, slackware, RHEL, CentOS (ok same
> > thing) and SuSE, and surprisingly, we once had a  customer with an old
> > win2K box back in mid 00's, that was very well behaved, and it was busy,
> > they ran a concert/band/event ticketing site on it, truly amazed me that
> > box.
> >
> > Worse OS's would be netbsd, fedora, debian, ubuntu, mint, windows*   ..
> > but very very nice money earners for remote hands :P
> >


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