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What distribution is most used in production environment
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I'm seeing a lot of very interesting answers but I'm wondering what you mean by "production environment".
Do you mean VFX Production? (English not my first language so if "production" is used in different industries, well, I didn't know).
I'm new to the industry and worked for small companies that don't use Linux. But my VFX peeps use Rocky, Mint, and Ubuntu ( stronger preference for Rocky in studios).
In IT in the US, "production" is commonly used to refer to systems that support actual business operations. In other words, it's as opposed to "development" or "testing" systems.
Thanks! So I gather the default is IT and not VFX, fair enough. It makes sense.
You're welcome! Yes, I believe so.
In this context production means servers or machines which make money in a business. The partner term is normally staging: a testbed environment.