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... What do you mean by "RedHat Infrastructure"? What kind of packages are available for RHEL but not for say, Debian?
by stephenr 6y ago
... What do you mean by "RedHat Infrastructure"? What kind of packages are available for RHEL but not for say, Debian?
- bayindirh 6y agoNothing sinister. It's not about availability of packages. It's more like people develop and verify on RedHat based distros (because ScientificLinux was RedHat based). Some examples: - Software is released RPM first. - Software certification done on RedHat and CentOS (compile / verification). - Library versions present in RedHat and CentOS are used in development. - Documentation is written RedHat first. You can do everything on Debian. Possibly something would be hardcoded and you need to work around or re-compile it. Or, it works without hiccup but, developers can't provide support since they didn't test on Debian. Scientific software is a very different beast. Its accuracy and precision sometimes depend on the mood of a newborn butterfly in Zanzibar. I develop such software so, I know a little bit about the peculiarities. Since RedHat also has paid support, RH based distributions are considered more sound and mature, because if something breaks, RedHat can fix. It's no different for Debian but, RedHat was able to fly an engineer for NEC Corp. to reproduce and fix a GCC bug on-site. System in question was Itanium based IIRC.
- _jal 6y agoThat isn't it, it is just that tools are built for RH-flavors first, and used on RH-flabored distros. I'm sure you can get this stuff working on Debian. I'm also sure it is much more of a PITA to do so, just because that's not where the eyeballs are.