Hi Kyle, On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Kyle Spencer wrote:
> I have never used CentOS, but am a die-hard Debian fan specifically > because of its proven stability, security, and ease of management. > > What does CentOS offer that would make me choose it over Debian? I find RPMs much easier to build than debs. This is important because both CentOS and Debian, being very stable, are also pretty old, and I often need to update a particular package to a newer version by building a custom rpm. Source RPMs usually just build out of the box, Debian dpkgs usually don't, for me. Also I have a hell of a time working out how to modify debian packages, but I find RPMs easy. Disabling services on Debian without uninstalling them is painful, but checkconfig on Redhat-based systems makes it easy. Debian and Ubuntu stubbornly refuse to ship the perfectly good initscript for loading a saved iptables firewall configuration, which means that I have to hack together something on every Debian box to give it a firewall. On the other hand I do quite like Debian's Apt, and I install the Apt-RPM port on pretty much every CentOS box that I administer. Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
