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I'm currently in my first nix job after years with Windows. It's a larger company (15k+ people) and using RedHat for it's linux solution (solaris/aix is also present). Honestly, I don't understand the $$$ argument at the enterprise level against msoft. Not only are you paying Redhat for support but their RPMs are about a year behind what's out there (that's a lot of time!). I'm trying to get .net (coreclr) compiled now on RHEL to play around but having a heck of a time b/c of all the old packages (btw- if anyone has instructions for this, __PLEASE__ send along).

Are other nix shops using Ubuntu for their servers?

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If you're comparing Red Hat RPM's version numbers, then don't. Red Hat works by backporting features and fixes on top of the old versions, precisely so customers don't need to upgrade to new major versions so often.

Well that makes it more complicated. Any idea how I would be able to find these packages (specifically: libunwind8, libssl-dev and unzip)

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

Uhm, ... packages don't always have the same names on all distributions!

i.e. "libunwind8" translates to libunwind, unzip to unzip and libssl-dev to openssl-devel. libunwind's from EPEL though...

Looks like we'll be adding libunwind as a new package in RHEL 7.2. (There's a BZ, but for some reason I can't really fathom it is marked as private, and it's above my salary scale to open private bugs, sorry)

This always pops up when we have audits performed; Solutionary in particular seems to just go by version number with ssh, and doesn't seem to recognize that RHEL has backported numerous fixes into it's RPMs.

Lot's of Shops use Ubuntu, yes. However you could also use CentOS or Fedora to be more flexible then with RedHat, especially when it comes to costs. 'Mostly' you don't need the Enterprise support, however without any paying for it we won't have Fedora / CentOS in the future. ;)

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