Today there are many distributions of Linux to choose from, picking one that is right for you can be straightforward as long as you know your needs, stable server environment, just a simple Linux client? The marked leader today is: Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat and Fedora Linux, Mandriva Linux, and SuSE Linux offer reliability, flexibility, and user-friendliness. They are the most popular Linux distributions. If your want a simple and easy Linux for desktop environment you have: Mint, Xandros Linux, Linspire and Ubunto are good first-time. Are your running critical server applications you best solution are Red Hat and SuSE Linux. In north of Europa you will find that SuSE Linux has a big marked share. We have chosen SuSE Linux because it's great history on stability (also on security).
In our environment the SLES11 Linux is deployed with standard operating mechanism like autoyast + PXE (tftp + dhcp). The Linux installation is done by http. Preferred hardware platform is based on PC/Intel. All new application code is written in Java and runs under the Linux application environment. Our supported list of SLES packages from Novell change over time.
