RedHat Linux
At Resolution Software, we've been using RedHat Linux since it was around, and SCO UNIX before that (as well as Slackware and IRIX). Over the past decade, we've tried out many different variations of Linux and Windows for our clients specific needs.For instance, when Gentoo Linux showed up, it was very popular with the "hardware crowd" that wanted everyone to build the software specifically for their hardware (without the bloat that other distributions had). It seemed like a good idea at the time, but we found that it made some hardware upgrades difficult or impossible, although when it worked, it was blazingly fast.
Other distributions that we've used and liked very much are KNOPPIX, which works tremendously well for recovering and working on broken Windows machines (usually better than Windows itself), and Damn Small Linux which is phenomenal for resurrecting old machines which Windows won't work on any more, or is just too slow. We haven't yet done much testing with Ubuntu or Kubuntu, but we will be doing so sometime this year.
However, in the meantime, the best all-around distribution that we have found is Red Hat Linux, which as of a year or two ago, became Red Hat Fedora Core Linux. It is amazingly stable, and we've deployed it as everything from database servers, web servers, fax servers, mail servers, and replacements for Windows servers (using Samba). We use Red Hat for all of our production machines in our Lubbock offices.
This article showed up yesterday on Digg about some things that Red Hat has been doing (I'm told that Google uses Red Hat on most of their systems), which has some interesting statistics about Red Hat. Specifically, their net profit % has gone down over the years, although the net profit $$'s have been going up. Additionally, they are spending more and more on R&D -- which is great, because they are supporting more and more Open Source projects, especially with their acquisition of JBoss.
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