> I can tell you from experience that I haven't seen much out of the paid > support for RHEL, if it were entirely up to me, I'd use only CentOS. > At > $WORK
It's true that RH support is a total waste. The only reason to pay for it is to be able to apply system updates. Even when some application requires genuine RedHat (synopsys, cadence) I've always been able to substitute CentOS instead, by simply "faking out" the /etc/redhat-release file. There have been only two times so far, when I've had something work on RHEL and not work on CentOS. And I only remember one of them. If you have a failed disk on a Dell server with a PERC array controller, the only way to replace the disk without rebooting and using the BIOS PERC management interface is to use OpenManage, and that unfortunately has RHEL proprietary code in it. So always buy the genuine RHEL for a Dell server with a PERC card. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
