Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Do you want to pay?? For me Debian... On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Digimer <linux at alteeve.com> wrote: > On 01/07/2012 07:21 AM, Pedro Henrique Morsch Mazzoni wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am new on the forum and have a newbie question. >> What is the easiest distribution for a DRBD+iSCSI Multipathing+Heartbeat >> Single-Primary deployment: >> >> Open SUSE ? >> Debian GNU/Linux ? >> CentOS ? >> Ubuntu Linux ? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Pedro Mazzoni > > Hi Pedro, > > Asking for "best distro" is always risky and fraught with more opinion > than facts. The most important question is; What is your experience with > the various distros and what are your primary concerns. > > I can't answer your question, but I can tell you how I answered mine > and perhaps that will help. > > 1. Being familiar with both rpm and deb distros left me feeling > comfortable on most distros. So familiarity wasn't a concern. What was > instead though was; Where are the apps I am most interested in being > developed? This was Fedora/RHEL, so I decided on an RPM distro. > > 2. My highest priority was stability, security and long life-cycles. > This eliminated all "workstation" distros like Fedora and Ubuntu (yes, I > know Ubuntu has an LTS but as I said, I'd already settled on an RPM > release). This meant RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux. > > With CentOS being designed for binary compatibility with RHEL, I > decided on CentOS as it would give me a fully Red Hat supported platform > for customers with the budgets for timely security patches and a > near-identical free platform for customers with less of a budget. > > Further, Linbit, the company behind DRBD, has a support agreement with > Red Hat, meaning that my DRBD-backed projects also had a direct path to > fully paid support. > > As I said; You need to answer similar questions yourself. Everyone has > their preferences and will suggest you use the same, but this isn't > ideal as their reasoning is unlikely to match yours. > > Cheers > > -- > Digimer > E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com > Freenode handle: digimer > Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com > Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org > "omg my singularity battery is dead again. > stupid hawking radiation." - epitron > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user