"Bob Jones" <email@me.not> wrote in message
news:mbssj.184$Ru4.73@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net.. .
> I would suggest CentOS because it is a clone of RedHat not SuSY.

Both RedHat and SUSE are either "recommended" or "validated" platforms for
DB2 (depending on the exact release of DB2 and Linux you are talking about).
I don't see CentOS listed, even though it may be a clone of RedHat.

The list of recommended and validated platforms can be found here (select
the version of DB2 at the top of the page):
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...platdist9.html

I believe that all of the TPC benchmarks that IBM has conducted suing the
Linux OS use SUSE, so I am sure that IBM has a lot of confidence in it.
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp