[dba-Tech] The latest Debian

Fun fact: Debian, on its own (excluding Debian based OSs like Ubuntu), is the most widely used operating system in the server market.

Here's another interested article with an admission from a Windows kernel developer about why the Windows is slower and falling behind other operating systems like Linux: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

- Hans


On 2013-05-11, at 11:04 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The latest Debian is here...Debian 7.
> 
> With this release, Google has removing its old OS and now is actively
> porting all it Cloud to Debian. Debian is now using the latest Linux core(?)
> which allows it to run on most of the major hardware architectures, all 32
> and 64 bit Intel chips as well as on ARM, PowerPC, Itanium, IBM S/390 and so
> on. 
> 
> Debian is not really a PC OS but a true server but it does come with a nice
> little GUI (distro) called Xfce though most "real men and women" in the
> computer industry still prefer the command line interface. 
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/08/debian_seven_review/
> 
> Of course you can still get all the reliability and functionality through
> the Ubuntu and Mint distros which do tend to use more of the leading edge
> (bleeding edge?) versions of Debian. Ubuntu, for example is really a full
> blown server with a pretty interface and if ever needed, this PC desktop
> could step up run the entire network, limited of course only by the
> hardware. (The latest Ubuntu version 13.04, has been described as very fast
> but boring...if you are a support tech you need more boring.)
> 
> According to some developers Exchange mail server, at least version 2010 and
> less, can runs fine on Debian but the 2012 version still requires some
> tweaks. The new Samba server completely replaces Active-directory. Finally,
> MS SQL 2012 runs and is fully compatible on Linux. 
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451.aspx
> 
> It looks like there is now less and less reasons to not migrate your servers
> to Linux and Debian in particular. So why would you change if you have
> already have a Windows Server system?
> 
> Answer: First, Linux runs up to three times as fast, can support almost a
> dozen times more clients than a similar configured MS server version (using
> the same hardware) and takes only a fifth of the space. Second, the
> innovation on the Linux platforms are years ahead compared to MS (Example:
> Debian uses, by default, a disk OS, that is faster (reading and writing),
> with built in duplication and is self-healing but of course you can always
> install the ZFS disk OS if you are planning a thousand server network).
> Third, Linux (Debian) is rock solid reliable; no blue screens or software
> crashes. Fourth, security on Linux servers have been the absolute best.
> Fifth, and perhaps the least important, the initial product costs are zero,
> but of course, tech support fees (your fees) are just the same.    
> 
> So why are you still installing Windows servers? ;-)
> 
> Jim
> 
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