On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Isaac Atilano wrote:

> In the case of choosing an OS for a file server, and if we're narrowing 
> our scope to Unix like OS's and were talking about a relatively small 
> network, the OS distro you know best factor does carry a lot of weight 
> among the myriad of factors involved in OS selection. This being because 
> there's normally not much difference in file server administration, 
> performance or security between the various Unix like OS's.

Sure, but you wouldn't recommend "the one you know best" to someone else 
who doesn't know it unless you were going to maintain it for him.

Mike