Hi Brian,
Welcome to Reno! I'm going on 7 years here and really grown to love
this area. I hope you find it the same :-)
Brian Morris wrote:
I do not want to start nor participate in a flame war over this, but I
have a strong opinion on it nonetheless.
Nor do I. I have no use or toleration for flame wars. We all have
opinions, and I'm glad folks around here are not shy about expressing
them (politely) :-)
If anyone is totally stuck using RHEL they should just use Windows
instead. Windows is just as proprietary as RHEL but costs much less
over at least a 3-year period.
Getting pretty close to a troll there, but I'll stick to my main points.
For me, it is a matter of practicality. I'm not *stuck* using RHEL (or
compatible). I *choose* to use CentOS for a couple of production
servers because it is free and as you note in your blog, it has good
hardware compatibility for cheap whitebox (supermicro) servers.
Also, for the record, CentOS has the same pricetag as Debian, so the
money argument doesn't work.
I don't use the RHEL/CentOS packages for everything. I compile the core
packages related to web hosting because I want the latest packages for
that stuff.
So religion aside, there is really no reason that I couldn't use Debian
for my production servers, but I simply choose not too. If I learned
something compelling to make me reconsider, I would have no trouble
moving.
IMHO, this is getting to the essence of what makes Linux great; Choice!
You choose Debian, I choose CentOS (for my production servers).
Regards,
John
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