From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Thu 07 Apr 2005 - 04:47:01 BST
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:56:03AM +0200, Ehab Heikal wrote:
> Fedora is experimental, you do not want the latest and coolest
> software on your server, you need the most stable. This is what CENTOS
> and RHEL give you older more stable software like good wine. The main
> difference between an enterprise grade system and just plain old
> software is that you get the bug fixes for the old software for a long
> time. Thus the stability.
>
> CENTOS is close to perfect, the main problem is that there are many
> customizations to the RH kernel over the plain vannilla kernel.org
> kernel that vserver does not compile for RH kernels, how much of that
> will affect you if you run a plain kernel on a RH disti, well that is
> more or less unknown you always run the risk of getting an arcane
> error that happens only to you.
care to elaborate which kernel they use?
I mean the one it is similar too ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vserver-bounces_at_list.linux-vserver.org
> [mailto:vserver-bounces_at_list.linux-vserver.org] On Behalf Of Paul S.
> Gumerman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:07 PM
> To: vserver_at_list.linux-vserver.org
> Subject: Re: [Vserver] CentOs distribution
>
> My thoughts exactly! I'll be doing a test install today, then
> patching a kernel for drbd + linux-vserver.
> Daniel S. Reichenbach wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> This may be somewhat off-topic, but why is it that people like centos
> which seems to me like REL without support. Since support is what REL is
> all about, wouldn't it be better to go with FC3 (soon 4) rather than a
> bunch of outdated software that comprises EL?
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> Fedora Core is updating packages way to fast. While I believe it is
> fine for personal use to always have the latest version of a package,
> in business it seems more appropriate to have a working version and
> only upgrade for security reasons or bug fixes - which is what also
> differs RHEL from FC - and upgrade to newer versions only if it has
> significant benefits to offer.
>
> I have tried to use Fedora Core for business projects, but this is
> not a Good Thing(tm). Since I am using FC since its first release, I
> have noticed, they release packages breaking backward compatibility
> or even the complete system at least every fourth month. While the
> rate has lowered, it still is to high for professional use I'd say.
>
> IMHO for business projects you need systems where you can say they
> will run for two or three years without flaws. This is what RHEL
> offers with support and CentOS without support.
>
> With kind regards,
> Daniel S. Reichenbach
>
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