> I run Scientific Linux, "SL", a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. > The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be > troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a > day from CentOS showing up on our mailing list and forums. > > Any CentOS users here? I'm hoping the tales of woe are > overblown, and CentOS is still healthy and moving forwards. > If something happens to SL, I would rather not have RHEL as > the only practical alternative.
The problem with CentOS is that it is based off of RHEL. Red Hat has taken some steps to make it harder for CentOS from using their RPMs. (Like having the kernel source as one large tarball instead of clean source and patches.) I have two big problems with CentOS. The versions used are OLD. (As they are in RHEL.) There are features in SSH I would like to use on my home system, but the version used by CentOS is about 5 years old. If I wanted to use out of date, bitrotten software I would install Debian. The packages are quite limited. I was going to install a program that needed a pile of Haskell packages and most of them did not exist for CentOS. Compiling the packages would have meant updating a number of other packages just to get it to build. If I wanted to go through that headache I would just install something that is current and upgrade every six months. Ubuntu has long term support for some of their versions, but they are Debian based and I really have no love for the Debian package manager. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
