been asked to install linux at the local youth club

[oxtail75]

i have been asked to install linux at my local youth club i agreed to help but they wont the paid support so i was just wundering who is the best to go with RHEL 5 SLED 10 or Ubuntu and pay for the support it also needs to be dispatched over 40PC

another thing is i dont wont to have to reinstall every couple of months
thanking u in advance

ps sorry about bad spelling english is not my native tong

[oz]

This could be a tricky situation for you, oxtail75.

Nobody here can really tell you which distro will for certain be the best one for your organization because each distro has its own loyal followers and they will all surely say that their's is the best. Others that answer will most likely have never tried all of them and truly compared them.

If I were you, I'd do some online searching about each distro, its support channel, it's up front costs and upgrade costs, etc., then present that info to some panel for your organization and let them vote on what will be implemented. That way, if things should not turn out the way they thought, they won't all be angry at you because they went with your suggestion.

Of course, that's all just my own opinion on the matter.

[oxtail75]

that is some very good advice thank you do u no of any other distros that have enterprise support and i no i opening up an old question here but the best de for the set up most of the users dont own pcs of there own

[oz]

Here's a comparison chart of various distros and it covers a number of different things that might be of interest to you and your organization:

Comparison of Linux distributions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[oxtail75]

thank for that it helped a lot researching as i speck

[oxtail75]

just an update for u

i have being looking in to it and aswell as presenting he facts and figues i have dug out my old ladtop
and installed Ubuntu and a trial of the other 2 so that they can try each one out

[likwid]

I recommend Red Hat, SLED I would say comes in second, and Ubuntu I just wouldn't use at all.

[oxtail75]

thanks for the input

[carlosponti]

I would use what you are comfortable and knowledgeable with, if that is Ubuntu then use Ubuntu. Main thing is that at some point you will be a point of contact for issues concerning the PC.

[cool_arrow]

The documentation for RHEL5 is very good (and CentOS 5 is free). Not saying this distro is the perfect choice but good docs come in handy sometimes.