[Cialug] CentOS & GPT

[Matt Patterson]

openSUSE has gotten a lot better in the 11.x releases.  You can now do a online distribution upgrade ( 11.1-> 11.2 for example) with relative ease compared to the ugly days of 10.x.   

But I'll agree 100% with Josh in the fact that the version lifespan is ridiculously short so be prepared to be upgrading every 6 months or so.  

-Matt


On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Josh More wrote:

> I know you know this, but I have to mention that OpenSUSE and Fedora are poor choices for enterprise needs.  It's not that they don't work, it's that the lifespan of the distro version is so short that you have to rebuild the server too often.
> 
> I think that the cost for SLES is well offset by the time it would take to maintain Fedora or OpenSUSE.
> 
> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of L. V. Lammert [lvl at omnitec.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 15:32
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] CentOS & GPT
> 
> At 02:48 PM 9/7/2010, you wrote:
> 
>> Given that CentOS 5 is based upon RHEL 5 and
>> that RHEL 5 is a couple of years old now it
>> shouldn't be surprising that stuff like GPT
>> partitions aren't supported.  After all, that's
>> kind of the point of an enterprise distribution.
>> Give the RHEL 6 beta a try and see if it supports GPT drives.
> 
> That's the same conclusion I came to, .. though I
> did get one reply from a associate that suggested
> SLES. Trying OpenSuSE right now [as I have a boot
> disk], .. might switch to Fedora.
> 
> Bottom line, however, SLES reportedly has GPT in
> current versions, RHEL does not.
> 
>         Lee
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