That would greatly depend on whether you are running Centos on mission critical production applications/servers or personal/evaulation systems.
Must we visit the value of a RH subscription? There is a reason why RHEL is chosen over Centos http://press.redhat.com/2009/12/02/the-value-of-red-hats-subscription-model-and-support/ or http://www.redhat.com/about/whysubscriptions/ On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 06:05:28PM -0400, sanga collins wrote: > "Centos is a waste of time as it will always lag behind RHEL by 4 to 24" > > Really? > > How 4 to 24 hours wait worse than no updates at all without paying a yearly > subscription. That statement does not compute. > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I use F13 at work (desktop) and currently run RHEL 5.5 client on my > > personal laptop (X61 Thinkpad). If you ask me, Centos is a waste of time > > as it will always lag behind RHEL by 4 to 24 hours since their developers > > have to wait until a src.rpm is available from RH to create a final product > > very similar to RHEL. > > > > Thomas, you can still get a free 30-day unsupported subscription from > > > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/eval/ > > > > or > > > > https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/allProducts.html > > > > > > Sekidde > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:30:28AM -0400, sanga collins wrote: > > > 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]>< > > chris%[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). 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