Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-13 Thread Stephen
That is correct because really the difference is in the support of the code and the materials surrounding it. as they are both forks of the RHEL open source code. For me Centos was easier to work with because it had more information and documentation. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, R P Herrold

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> If the patch cycle is as >> quick as Cent/RHEL, it may be prod-ready. > > net patch cycles have historically track out substantially identically; > CentOS just completed a re-engineering cycle with the 6 major release which, > with any luck, w

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Ben Browning wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, R P Herrold wrote: It and CentOS are almost indistinguishable to a sysadmin who i not a distribution builder; the remaining principal of the distribution is: Connie Sieh, who is a friend.  the other long time member rec

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > It and CentOS are almost indistinguishable to a sysadmin who i not a > distribution builder; the remaining principal of the distribution is: Connie > Sieh, who is a friend.  the other long time member recently went to work at > Red Hat My und

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Ben Browning wrote: "Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters." EG not a prod OS, in my opinion. ehh? It and CentOS are almost indistinguishable to a sysadmin who i not a distribution

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Eric Shubert
On 01/12/2012 02:13 PM, keith smith wrote: Hi, The data center where my client has several LAMP servers is suggesting we look at http://www.ScientificLinux.org/ for our next upgrade. We currently are using CentOS on one box and RHEL on another. Anyone using Scientific Linux ? If so your

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Stephen
I think Scientific Linux is a fork of RH like CentOS, but more oriented to stability for scientific research uses. I personally didn't like it much and preferred CentOS. but that was some years ago.. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:13 PM, keith smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > The

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Browning
has several LAMP servers is suggesting we > look at http://www.ScientificLinux.org/ for our next upgrade. We > currently are using CentOS on one box and RHEL on another. > > Anyone using Scientific Linux ? If so your experience and recommendations? >

Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread keith smith
Hi, The data center where my client has several LAMP servers is suggesting we look at http://www.ScientificLinux.org/ for our next upgrade.  We currently are using CentOS on one box and RHEL on another. Anyone using Scientific Linux ?  If so your experience and recommendations? Thank you in