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[Matthew]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Evan Kinney <emkinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> They're both running long-in-the-tooth versions of CentOS 5 and, to be
> quite honest, no one is really sure of CentOS's future given the
> nature of the project and the fact that Red Hat keeps making it more
> difficult to build their SRPMs into something usable.
>
 In my opinion, this leaves us with two options: the Ubuntu LTS spin

(or Debian Stable, I suppose) or Fedora.


Are there any recent reports of this? The only information I've seen is
over a year old. While CentOS certainly had a problem getting 6 out the
door, updates to CentOS 6 have been out on the same day as the same updates
on my RHEL6 box. Not that you suggested it, but I also have a SL5 systems
that sees updates 2-5 days after my CentOS 5 systems.

As far as I can tell, CentOS has very effectively overcome any problems
working with the RedHat SRPMs.

Yes, CentOS 5 was released a while, ago, but that's a feature of an
Enterprise distribution, not a reason to change. Are the packaged versions
too old for something we need, or are there actual benefits to be gained
from a newer distribution?

Unless we actually need a bleeding edge package, Fedora would be a bad idea
for us. Not only does it quickly lose support, but it really isn't properly
vetted for a system that's sitting on a remote server and maintained by
volunteer admins. I don't know Ubuntu or Debian, but another enterprise
option would be SuSE.


-- 

Matthew
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