[bmelton]

I've got a few servers personally that I run, all are either Debian or Ubuntu. That's what I run on my laptop and desktop, so it makes it easier for me to develop locally.

With virtualenv, github, fabric, etc., deploying isn't as much of a challenge as it used to be, but I like to keep it as straightforward as possible.

For the day job, we use RedHat Enterprise, because our target market is enterprise, and that's the most widely accepted Enterprise Linux distro in the enterprise.

I'm not a particularly big fan of RH-based distros, but I vastly prefer RH to Solaris or Windows, so I count my blessings.

[brettweaverio]

Agreed, however I've been feeling for a while that Red Hat is becoming the new Solaris. Everything takes twice as long and is a couple revs out of date when compared to other distros.

I've been struggling to find the value in their services to justify this trade off.

[bmelton]

Without getting into a distro debate, the immediate justification for RHEL to Enterprises is that there's somebody to blame if it doesn't work, and that there's a vendor to call if their generally mediocre onsite staff can't solve a problem.

Compared to Solaris, it's cheaper, package management is much easier, and it has all the Linuxy goodness that corporations feel make them more agile.