Tuesday, June 26, 2012: When it comes to Linux distributions, there are so many names in the market that it can sometimes confuse the end user as to which one is the best for what. But a survey definitely comes handy in this. This survey was conducted by cloud storage and back-up service firm Symform, which found out that smaller businesses prefer Debian and Ubuntu over Red Hat distributions for file servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
Out of all the respondents, 67 per cent who use Linux on a file server said that they use Debian distributions, whereas only 54 per cent use Red Hat-based ones. This survey interviewed 100 small and medium-sized business users, and was sponsored by Symform with the goal of identifying the most common distributions among Linux users interested in additional data backup, particularly cloud-based solutions.

This data will be supporting the company’s upcoming product releases, it says. "When it comes to Linux market share information, there is good data about Web server deployments from organizations such as W3Techs, but we wanted to shed light on SMBs' use of Linux for file servers, such as what Linux chains organizations use to store their data," said Margaret Dawson, vice president of product management and marketing at Symform.

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