I use both RHEL and Centos extensively. Apart from the branding (logos, and Os descriptions) they are EXACTLY THE SAME. Centos 5.xx and RHEL 5.xx and beyond run parallel as far as updated packages and security patches. Even installing packages like directory server is just a matter of changing the name to match the distro. for example yum insatall redhat-ds is equivalent to yum install centos-ds
Hope that helps. BTW Centos is far more stable than fedora and can be used for production boxes while fedora is a better desktop/testing distro. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Chris Wilson <[email protected]<chris%[email protected]> > wrote: > 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. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411
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