[RyanKearney]

CentOS if you can't use RHEL.

[mihasya]

Do you have some benchmarks handy that indicate that CentOS or RHEL are more performant than Ubuntu?

[maratd]

Any performance differences should be negligible. Use what you're used to. I personally use Amazon/CentOS/RHEL because I know where everything is and how everything goes.

[mihasya]

;)

[rcrowley]

Because Python 2.4 is still AWESOME!

[RyanKearney]

Oh man, good thing you can install python yourself on RHEL. But I wouldn't expect someone using Ubuntu to know how to download and compile the source code themselves.

[burgerbrain]

Because they don't have to.

(And I say that as a longtime RH fanboi)