Re: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?

[Mark Stodola]

Since this is becoming a top-post thread, I will continue the trend.
CentOS does not offer a support contract like RHEL.  Why would a company 
compete with itself?  It is essentially a community supported release of 
RHEL, just like SL.

Of course, some one please correct me if I am wrong here...

This is not a new topic, and was discussed at length when RedHat 
announced the acquisition of CentOS and changes to the build process. 
To my knowledge, the SL team had discussions with the CentOS and RedHat 
people on how to move forward.  The SL team decided to continue as a 
complete separate distribution instead of become in extra 
repository/site for the foreseeable future.

One of the key features I like about SL is the ability to stay on a 
specific point release and still receive relevant updates.  There are 
probably several other reasons Connie or Pat could elaborate on as well.

In the end, it is up to personal/company preference with any 
distribution you chose to use.  That is part of what open source is 
about.  Arguing for distribution usage/mergers doesn't really do 
anything productive here in a users' mailing list.

-Mark


On 01/12/2016 02:10 PM, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Has CentOS got support yet? My employer moved to RHEL because we got
tired of fighting third party vendors over their support on non-RHEL
platforms, but I personally always found SL to be more consistent and
quicker to release... and they had much better support.

On 01/12/2016 02:04 PM, lejeczek wrote:
hi,
after my first post I made a move, I should say a smaller rather, I
did migrate a small HA cluster from SL7.1 to Centos7.2.
Instructions to do that I'm sure everybody can easily look up, just
one tiny manual intervention was needed above what is already covered
by a doc on Centos website.
But most importantly nothing broke, all the usual servers, web, mail,
other net related services including HA carried on seamlessly.
Like I said earlier, and everybody knows, a lot, a lot is already
shared, differences boil down to maybe a philosophy behind each
organization responsible for each snip-off, some organizational and
administrative processes, protocols.
Slight advantage seems that Centos offers, but expected as they are
closer to the source in the lifecycle supply chain, is higher revision
of some rpm packages, I see I get slightly newer kernel for example, etc.

If I was to voice my opinion out - and scientific devel & other
responsible culprits are listening - then I say: go for it, get
together, merge userbase, share devel jobs, duties, etc. Merge/share
or even better, tell Redhat we want to use their, shared by all, bug
reporting system.

I've decided, I'll be moving over to Centos, gradually but surely.
Note, one thing to remember if you did SL -> Centos, afterwards, is
yum repos, make sure what you have enabled there.

cheers

On 12/01/16 09:48, lejeczek wrote:
hi everybody,

I've wondered and got curious, what do you guys, gals think about
that move?
More importantly do you think it's a step we SL users should also
consider?
CERN mention there were talks between them, Fermilab - what are
Fermilab plans with regards to future releases, with regards to SL in
general? (Not much info on the website.)
I personally am just about to trial a migration from SL7 to Centos.
I'm thinking it's inevitable, am I wrong?

best wishes.



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Miles O'Neal
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