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Centos 6 released
- nodata 15y agoThey're still alive!
- iaskwhy 15y agoCan someone explain what's important here for a very basic Linode user?
- nek4life 15y agoAn updated version of Python amongst other updated packages. Will probably make installing certain software not so much of a pain in the rear.
- boyter 15y agoHaving just spent the better part of a day setting up Django on a Centos 5.5 machine I am doing a happy dance at this news. The amount of work to get things up and running is truly painful. Especially if you are on a x64 system.
- shapeshed 15y agoRed Hat without the licence. A stable, conservative flavour of Linux.
- GaryOlson 15y agoA completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users might want to wait unless you really need the Python updates.
- viraptor 15y agoWhat's the point of using CentOS these days? Scientific Linux is basically compiled from the same sources and doesn't lag months behind RHEL. Did I miss something?
- ghshephard 15y agoThe "why" is that CentOS has brand recognition, and many who don't want to purchase an RHEL license, but want to run software that's been qualified/RPM'd for that platform, will naturally turn to CentOS. I've been following Linux Distros for 10 Years, Have built my own LFS, have a couple slicehost servers, one linode server, and a bare metal server at Server Beach - This is the first time I've heard that "Scientific Linux" could be used in place of CentOS. Now that almost certainly means that I'm ignorant of something that those more clued than me would consider obvious, but, in terms of knowledge of Linux Distributions among your typical IT crowd, I'm probably in the 95+ Percentile - so you can imagine how many others out there haven't heard of Scientific Linux and just turn to CentOS without knowing better.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoI've been building, running and configuring Debian, Fedora, Centos and RHEL systems for over a decade and I've never even heared of "Scientific Linux"
- KonradKlause 15y agovery sad...
- KonradKlause 15y agoWhy this?
- beedogs 15y agoProbably because your comment added nothing. FWIW, I hadn't heard of SL either, despite having used and administered Linux distributions for the past 15 years. Feel free to use that fact to call my entire career into question, too, though.
- rdtsc 15y ago> The "why" is that CentOS has brand recognition The real brand is RHEL. Otherwise people don't care much what the brand of the binary compiled Linux they are using. We switched from CentOS to SL to CentOS. To be honest, the staff @ CERN and Fermilab inspire more confidence in their commitment to their distro than the CentOS. I understand the guys have full time jobs and do this on the side, but in the end that becomes kind of irrelevant for some new end user who is just looking for binary compatibility with RHEL. > This is the first time I've heard that "Scientific Linux" Then you haven't followed the linux distros (especially RHEL binary compatible clones) close enough. SL is actually older than CentOS.
- sitkack 15y agoI really excited to try out the brand new Python 2.5!
- sitkack 15y agoThe idea of a monolithic base operating system has got to go. A machine as a unit of encapsulation wastes resources and forces a needless race towards lowest common denominator bug compatible versions of packages. If application A needs PHP 5.2 and application B needs PHP 5.3 they should both be able to exist on a "machine" w/o resorting to complicated maintenance or having separate OS instances per app. Witness, http://nixos.org/ http://nixos.org/ a purely functional package management system. Use it either in userland or as an entire OS. You decide.
- jodrellblank 15y agoIsn't this continuing the debate about centralised libraries vs. localised ones? Then you have PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 to bug fix, and new applications then need their own PHP interpreter or they add dependency crosslinks. That doesn't sound like it's getting rid of "complicated maintenance".
- klaruz 15y agoThat's the point of the nix package manager, it manages that complexity for you. The libraries are centralized in that each is stored in a path that is the checksum of all it's inputs. It really is an interesting system, they've published several papers on it that are worth reading.
- espeed 15y agoYeah, one issue with CentOS/Redhat was that yum required Python 2.4 so you had to keep it around and install python 2.7 as python27. Thankfully Python makes it easy to run applications in a virtual environment so you can install different versions of libraries into the virtualenv without worrying about breaking things somewhere else.
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- jswanson 15y agoToo late. Already replicated created Scientific Linux 6 cobbler repos and have started deploying. SL seems to be much more on top of things than CentOS these days, and it was incredibly frustrating waiting for CentOS to release 6.
- bcl 15y agoAnd don't forget to check out the Extra packages from the EPEL repository - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
- LiroXIV 15y agoWhile its nice that they got it out, I'm sure many still think that the developers have failed them with this predicament. That's why SL was gaining market, they just wanted 6. Though, for those looking for a "generic" EL spin, that Ascendos one looks like it may have promise once they get a release out.
- kzk_mover 15y agoThis release includes transparent large page? This will hugely increase the performance of memory-consuming applications (c,f. Redis, HBase, MongoDB, etc.). I confirmed at RHEL6.
- rwmj 15y agoIt's compiled from the same kernel source so it should have THP (I admit here that I've not verified this with CentOS 6). And yeah, THP is great.