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What do you mean? Ubuntu is hugely popular (i recall some cloud provider saying it's the most popular distro they host), and so is SUSE in certain parts of the

by sofixa 4y ago

What do you mean? Ubuntu is hugely popular (i recall some cloud provider saying it's the most popular distro they host), and so is SUSE in certain parts of the world (like Germany). I don't recall having problems with Dell server-related packages on Debian, even if their own crapware (OpenManage Essentials and then Enterprise, legitimately one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the displeasure of using) for managing iDRACs and firmware came as a CentOS-based appliance.

INTPenis 4y ago
Well first of all Ubuntu is Debian based, so choosing one over the other is mostly semantics. And secondly, even if you can use Dell software, it's not supported. EMC for example will not support you if you don't use supported distros. It's still a frighteningly low number of distros considering we used to have an abundance of distros to hop around on for desktop use. Distrowatch.com for example, but for all those distros, when it comes to servers we narrow ourselves down to less than a handful.
- mekster 4y ago
  How has desktop based distro got anything to do with server side distro? I don't care if DistroWatch shows bunch of random newbie friendly distro in the upper ranking, they're not corporate supported. Debian doesn't do clean 2 years LTS release cycle nor has 10 years extended support.
- sofixa 4y ago
  > EMC for example will not support you if you don't use supported distros. Support you how and with what? What does your storage vendor have to do with your server's distros? Even the distro running on the server itself doesn't matter, really, because it's not like Dell/HP are writing distro-specific userspace drivers.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    >What does your storage vendor have to do with your server's distros? Operating systems have a hardware compatibility list (HCL). If your product is not on the HCL for the operating system vendor and you have a problem--at least one somehow plausibly related to the interaction between your product and the server--neither vendor is obligated to support you. (They may well try but there's no guarantee.)

by sofixa 4y ago

INTPenis 4y ago

Well first of all Ubuntu is Debian based, so choosing one over the other is mostly semantics. And secondly, even if you can use Dell software, it's not supported. EMC for example will not support you if you don't use supported distros. It's still a frighteningly low number of distros considering we used to have an abundance of distros to hop around on for desktop use. Distrowatch.com for example, but for all those distros, when it comes to servers we narrow ourselves down to less than a handful.

mekster 4y ago
How has desktop based distro got anything to do with server side distro? I don't care if DistroWatch shows bunch of random newbie friendly distro in the upper ranking, they're not corporate supported. Debian doesn't do clean 2 years LTS release cycle nor has 10 years extended support.
sofixa 4y ago
> EMC for example will not support you if you don't use supported distros. Support you how and with what? What does your storage vendor have to do with your server's distros? Even the distro running on the server itself doesn't matter, really, because it's not like Dell/HP are writing distro-specific userspace drivers.
- ghaff 4y ago
  >What does your storage vendor have to do with your server's distros? Operating systems have a hardware compatibility list (HCL). If your product is not on the HCL for the operating system vendor and you have a problem--at least one somehow plausibly related to the interaction between your product and the server--neither vendor is obligated to support you. (They may well try but there's no guarantee.)