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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">I would like to thank all the people who replied to me regarding the question above. As with many people who run Solaris, we are moving to an alternative OS as a result of the change of ownership of Solaris
from Sun to Oracle. Over the past 6 months we have investigated installing application from source and packages on all the major Linux distributions. During this process we got a feel of each of the OS. My next step was to provide some evidence to management
on what the general community was using and why. I now have sufficient testimonials to proceed from this stage.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">I am pleased to say that nearly all the replies I received supported my own conclusions. First is that BIND will run stably on all the popular flavours of Linux with little performance difference.<span style="">
</span>The second, which was in nearly all the replies, is that the choice of OS was down to the administrators experience, skills and preferences.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">For completes I have include the number of users using each OS, if it was stated in the reply. Because the sample is so small it may not be an accurately representation. It includes replies from the BIND, Exim,
Apache and Squid mail list for the same question. </span></p>
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Centos <span style=""> </span>5</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE">Redhat</span><span style=""> </span>5</span></p>
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Ubuntu<span style=""> </span>4</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE">Debian</span><span style=""> </span>3</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE">OpenSuse</span><span style=""> </span>3</span></p>
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Gentoo<span style=""> </span>2</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE">Fedro</span><span style=""> </span>1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">And finally a summary of the points raised when choosing<span style="">
</span>which Linux flavour to run BIND.</span></p>
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Administrators experience and skills</span></p>
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Administrators preferences.</span></p>
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Administration time.</span></p>
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Availability of replacement staff with experience of OS and training requirements.</span></p>
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Compilation or packages installs.</span></p>
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Availability<span style=""> </span>of suitable packages (if not using source).</span></p>
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Ease of compilation from source (if not using packages)</span></p>
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update cycle (Cutting edge or stable).</span></p>
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Online support or commercial support (Budget).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Once again, many thanks for all the people who replied.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Graham Butler</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Infrastructure Team.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Computing and Library Services.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">The University of Huddersfield.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> bind-users-bounces+g.butler=hud.ac.uk@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+g.butler=hud.ac.uk@lists.isc.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Graham Butler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 October 2012 13:59<br>
<b>To:</b> 'bind-users@lists.isc.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of Linux to run BIND with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect some evidence to which OS is being used to run BIND and why, before we make a decision.
Could you please respond by sending me, or the list, information on which OS you are using to run BIND and any information on why your decided to run it on that particular platform. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am also asking other list for similar information on Squid, Exim, Apache, etc…….</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks for any information you may send me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:blue">Graham Butler</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
Infrastructure Team.<br>
Email:g.butler@hud.ac.uk<br>
Tel: 01484 473785<br>
The University of Huddersfield<br>
Computing and Library Services<br>
PO Box No. 341<br>
Huddersfield<br>
HD1 3DH </span></p>
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