On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, jrs wrote: I have two hpc clusters with centos and lustre and most of my important infrastructure servers like email servers run centos. So far i have no issues really centos specific that the upstream rhel didn't have and is a stable solution. But if you intend to switch over to rhel with a support contract at some point, i am not so sure it is just a matter of pointing your yum repositories to that of redhat from centos repositories and do an update. It might need a fresh install of rhel. I have only good experiences with centos, their forum is also quite active. But if there will be a tomorrow with no free redhat srpms like suse enterprise linux, redhat gets bought by some other company with different policies and priorities etc etc, who knows what future looks for Centos ! In a university setup i am happy with centos with its compatibility with rhel and stability and no annual subscription fees for updates. But if i was in another situation like government, big businesses etc who can afford to pay for subsciptions with redhat or novell and if software subscriptions like these make a negligible part of the IT budget, i am not so sure i would have still gone with centos and not rhel. In my case in the university job, if centos ceases to exist, i would most likely be a debian fan. Ultimately its your choice and you are responsible for the consequences, good or bad. Hope it helps.
Balagopal > Thanks for the reassurance, guys ;-) > > JR > > > Aaron Knister wrote: > > Your management doesn't really have reason to be concerned. If something > > horrific happens to CentOS you could pretty much migrate to RHEL with > > minimal effort. > > > > -Aaron > > > > On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Steden Klaus wrote: > > > >> > >> CentOS is a de-branded version of Redhat enterprise, so they are > >> effectively binary-compatible. CentOS does not provide commercial > >> support. > >> > >> Our clusters use it exclusively with no issues, and I frequently mix > >> RPMs from both. > >> > >> Klaus > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
