John Dell wrote:
Hi Charles,
Charles Stevenson wrote:
...
There are lots of hidden nightmares for one who would do a cross-arch
repository like that. When I was the ia64 port maintainer for Tao Linux
I experiemnted with this to some extent. If one wishes to use an RHEL
rebuild and save tons and tons of money forgoing the support than I
highly recommend that. I'm not sure why you'd want to run RHEL unless
you're using Oracle or something... anyways. You can always login to
If you are running a production server, and don't want to worry about
having to do major upgrades, RHEL/clones give you 5 years of guaranteed
security updates (if you installed early in the release cycle). That
beats anything else out there that I'm aware of. Also, FWIW there were
some recent complaints about the turn-around time for debian security
updates.
the... was it called Primier or was that Intel. I think that was for
Intel compilers... ::sigh:: damn memory. Obviously I'm partial to Tao
Linux over Whitebox, CentOS (*shudder*) or any other RHEL clone. Yet I
can't help wanting to scream (USE DEBIAN!!) ;-)
What is it about CentOS that makes you *shudder*? Not trying to pick a
fight, but I've been happily using it for over a year.
John
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Hi,
Mind if I jump in again? Not trying to pick a fight either. Scientific
Linux is not a "clone" of RHLE. It is RHLE, without the logos, and with
the latest Mozilla family available. It is, for all practical intents
and purposes, perpetual service for any chosen release, because many of
the world's labs who use it have experiments that are ongoing for many
years and do not want their systems touched, except for security
releases. I honestly don't know if it's "better" or the same as CentOS,
because one hears a lot of good things about that project. But I do know
that CentOS isn't better than SL, because it simply couldn't be. There's
way too much horsepower behind SL for that to be the case.
And even if you don't use it, their support, through the forum of e-mail
lists, is really outstanding. Seriously, ask a question or two there
sometimes and see what happens. Even if you use CentOS. They're very
generous, open-spirited open-source folks.
Thanks for letting me barge in again.
Bill
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