--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > wrote: > > > CentOS not being anything like the official > Solaris > > release, I beg to differ. It is essentially what > you > > can get with RHEL sans Redhat trademarks and > direct > > Redhat support. Then there is Ubuntu. > > > > Linux may not be carrier grade but what it comes > with > > more than makes up for its lack where carrier > grade is > > not needed. Without that paid Sun support, > official > > Solaris 10 is pretty much crippled against Centos, > > Ubuntu or even Fedora. Software management, > drivers, > > development...the cards are stacked against free > > Solaris 10 and Open Solaris if you had to compete > > against others who use Linux and spend less energy > on > > these three areas. > > Are you saying that you can get 24x7 full support > for free from Centos? > Because if so, I would find that amazing. Doesn't > Centos charge for their > products/support?
No I am not. Where I used to work, in my previous job, we ARE the support. If we run into kernel issues, these are taken to lkml or other appropriate lists. If we run into issues with whatever open source software that we are using, we take them to their appropriate lists. There is no contract with any other entity. This is the same with respect to a fair few other Linux distributions. > > Remember that Solaris/OpenSolaris don't have any > cost associated with the > product. Sun doesn't give support away, other than > opensolaris.org, that > is free. But if you want 24x7 where you can call up > and escalate a fix, > you have to pay for that. This is not bad, this is > how it should work. I am not asking for free support and nor would I even think of it. > > Now, are you saying that Centos offers that for > free? NO. See above. By 'paid Sun support' I mean Sun Connection. For the sole reason that Redhat allows access to all its source packages regardless of whether you have a RHEL subscription, Centos is able to provide a RHEL distribution sans Redhat's trademarks. Redhat also allows access to updated source packages too and so Centos is also able to provide binary packages of these updates. Centos also provides extra non-Redhat released packages and enjoys the support of others who provide repositories of binary packages of yet more software that are built on Centos distributions and you have the option of creating your own repository of extra packages and/or self maintained/customized packages that superseeds what comes with the distribution. When Redhat releases an Update to a RHEL release, Centos gets the source rpms and generates the binary rpms and freeloaders like me can update to the latest Update without having to drop a DVD or CDs into the DVD/CD-ROM drive. So we don't get rapid escalation but we really don't care because we don't put mission critical stuff on unsupported Linux. Solaris 10 + Sun Connection allows a certain level of software management. We have to pay to get some convenience which is available free on Linux. This is what I am getting at. I believe there is no contest that there are more drivers available for Linux. Yes, you need to recompile everytime the kernel is updated but who cares when that has been done for you and all you have to do is run a command to get the binary package installed? Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
