Dear Rubin,
If I were a Centos based system in production, this incident would be a
tremendous motivator to move from "Unsupported" Centos to "Supported" Red
Hat, admittedly for a small fee.
Personally I would buy Red Hat Stock. I think that they are about to make
a lot of sales...
Regards,
Flint
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote:
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:30:11 -0400
From: Rubin Bennett <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fwd: melodrama at CentOS?
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:20 -0400, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
I'm curious how this will play out -- a lot of managed hosts
use CentOS
as a default option as it's free and they have staff on board
who can
administer and support it; if the option goes away, I wonder
what free
OS with LTS cycles will be used? Debian is a very different
beast than
RHEL...
My vote is for Ubuntu. RPM's always made me queasy.
Oooh, them's fightin' words!
If I'm not mistaken, RPMs and .debs share a very similar internal file
structure. I know that RPMs are actually just CPIO archives with a text
header - are .deb files the same?
In any case, I share your concern but in reverse: .debs drive me insane
and RPMs rock. I can roll an RPM from source with my bare hands! With
one tied behind my back even! So there. :P
Re: CentOS, my strong suspicion is that the missing person will stand up
long enough to hand over the reins, and CentOS will carry on just as it
is. That is unless RedHat took him hostage in a plot to take over
the... no, lose market share... or, um, well, nevermind... :)
Rubin
Stan
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