[Cialug] CentOS

[Josh More]

It depends on what you're trying to do.  The "enterprise" bit of RHEL
indicatew that you are expected to emphasize stability over flexibility.
 Hence the difficulty of using RHEL for nonstandard purposes.

If you want a basic server that is supported for years, with a minimum
of hacking, CentOS is a good choice if you don't want to pay for SLES or
RHEL.  (Though, I personally think they're worth it.)

If you want flexibility and extensibility, and are willing to trade
stability for it, OpenSUSE and Fedora are better choices.

--
Josh More
morej at alliancetechnologies.net

---- Original Message ----
From: "David Champion" <dchampion at visionary.com>
Date: 06-11-21 16:50
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Subj: Re: [Cialug] CentOS
How would you compare running RH vs Fedora vs CentOS?

My recent experiences with RH haven't been too favorable. It seems that 
things are more difficult to accomplish, and it doesn't have the depth 
of applications and modules available as say Mandriva or Debian. IIRC, 
it was a pain to get the php ms-sql module for RH, for instance, but 
it's in the main distribution for Mandriva. I used to be a heavy RH 
user, from about 4.0 to 6.2, but moved off it after that.

Anyone following the universal package management front? i.e. 
http://autopackage.org/

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Centos is great.  And they have a real organization built up around it
now
> so that is nice too.  I prefer Ubuntu now, but if you need RHEL
> compatibility, it is a great way to go.  Sometimes they are even
patching
> before Redhat.
> 
> -Nate
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Jeffries [mailto:ajeffri at loopysite.org] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:15 PM
>> To: cialug at cialug.org
>> Cc: amesfug at amesfug.org
>> Subject: [Cialug] CentOS
>>
>>
>> CIALUG and AmesFUG,
>>
>> I was wondering if there are any CentOS users around? If so, 
>> I'd like to know what you think about it. Thanks!
>>
>> -- 
>> Tony Jeffries
>> ajeffri at loopysite.org
>> n0nro at arrl.net
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