On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 22:21 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > P.S. as other have mentioned, if the machines are being used for > > development and testing, CentOS should be OK. > > If the machines are being used for production (servers, machines that > > will end up in your client's hands, etc), get RHEL. Trust me, no-one > > ever got fired for using RHEL. > > Over the last 3 years or so of using CentOS (or as it were in previous > workplace, RHEL sources compiled locally), I've been exposed numerous > times to the "CentOS vs. RHEL" question and not once saw a killer > argument for preferring RHEL over CentOS. Only instances I saw: > > 1. Oracle's installer looks for specific strings in > /etc/redhat-release, which can be tricked by editing this file during > the install process. > 2. Our developers asked for RHEL instance to compile stuff that one of > the clients insists it must be an RHEL binary. As far as I can tell > this is a case of CYA more than any technical reason. > > --Amos
The be honest, as a developer I prefer CentOS over RHEL mostly because CentOS's software selection is better then RHEL server. (Which we use on our target machines) - especially given that fact that CentOS to RHEL compatibility is exemplary - read: we distribute our software using RPMs that were built on CentOS5/x86_64 and tested on RHEL5/x86_64. Having said all that, RHEL is one thing going for it. -Fast- response times and very good support. Sitting in a front end, I rather have security updates applied yesterday and not in two days. The 12-48 hours between a RHEL update and a CentOS update can be devastating and I rather not put my ass on the line for 200$/machine. - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
