Mayengo Thomas (OP): Get centos, it is a DVD so you may need someone to help you out and DL it for you since you pay by the packet. You will not regret it.
We run centos on production servers, all our domain controllers and email servers (50+ Sites). We run RHEL on our purchasing platforms (think amazon.com specialized for large residential institutions like hospitals and Long Term Care Facilities) Both work great, and both are almost identical. We have been using them side by side for almost 4 years so i am just speaking from personal experience. Apart from the paid support package, the only other major differences are: the branding and logos, default desktop background and the tune it plays after a succesful desktop login. there is even a file "/etc/redhat-release " that you can modify on centos to say either "CentOS release 5.x (Final)" or "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 5" if you have specific apps that say you must have one distro or another. Juniper Networks NSM is a good example. The OP wanted to find a distro that doesn't require him to learn or branch into a different syntax and overwall way of doing things (apt get for ubuntu vs. yum install for RHEL/centos) After ubuntu, centos i believe has the most forums and tech papers on the web to pull research and knowledge from since you can tap into both the redhat and centos communities and support your self. By the way, red hat support sucks. Unless you are a major company with thousands of licenses feeding them money. Those critical IT disasters that you thought were covered by your yearly subscription are usually met with an email saying "I'm sorry but we couldnt replicate your issue on our test server, please provide more information and/or reproduce the issue on a different physical box" Which to me is a nice way of saying "Have you googled it or checked the forums :-p On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]>>< > > > chris%[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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