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> it is ridiculous as server compared to CentOS. What makes you say that?

by critic 18y ago

c00p3r 18y ago
It is not very difficult task to ask google search about how many key-developers receives their paychecks from RedHat and IBM and how many of them contributing to Fedora project. Then you can try to figure out how many installations of RHEL around, in the worlds biggest datacenters and then which distro amazon or google uses. Then you can take a look on RedHat's revenue. At last, if you're really curious, you can download .src.rpm of the latest CentOS kernel and take a look to the patches. and very last hint: Oracle. DB2.
- c00p3r 18y ago
  okay =) I understand, that people are not familiar with situation in this Linux world. When you selecting CentOS you're reusing Fedora's and then RHEL's release circles and time of their gurus. Fedora is an bleeding edge distro, for rapid integration and testing, while RHEL is Fedora-based commercially supported by RedHat system. CentOS is a repackaging of the RHEL's sources. Oracle reusing RHEL for its Unbreakable Linux. Why wouldn't you?
psadauskas 18y ago
I'd like to know, too. We use CentOS 5 for servers, and I hate it because anytime I want to do anything interesting, we have to compile stuff from source to get anything recent enough. (Ruby, Git, etc...)
- c00p3r 18y ago
  runing the rpmbuild --rebuild command on a Fedora's .src.rpm is not a rocket science.
- c00p3r 18y ago
  Ruby, git, etc - is a very portable userland packages. It means they almost independed from an OS. It means you can focus on the quality of the OS, while fresh user tools can be easily backported from bleeding edge distros like Fedora. I'm runing production servers which are 64-bit FC10 based systems onder the Xen 3.3 with kernels from CentOS. Resent Fedora lacks support of 64bit dom0, but CentOS has it. xen-hypervisor I'm using is from FC11. So, I have fresh developer tools along with latest Xen and very stable and well-tested kernel. It works pretty good. Linux is like Lego, not like Windows.

> it is ridiculous as server compared to CentOS. What makes you say that?

by critic 18y ago

> it is ridiculous as server compared to CentOS. What makes you say that?

It is not very difficult task to ask google search about how many key-developers receives their paychecks from RedHat and IBM and how many of them contributing to Fedora project. Then you can try to figure out how many installations of RHEL around, in the worlds biggest datacenters and then which distro amazon or google uses. Then you can take a look on RedHat's revenue. At last, if you're really curious, you can download .src.rpm of the latest CentOS kernel and take a look to the patches. and very last hint: Oracle. DB2.

c00p3r 18y ago
okay =) I understand, that people are not familiar with situation in this Linux world. When you selecting CentOS you're reusing Fedora's and then RHEL's release circles and time of their gurus. Fedora is an bleeding edge distro, for rapid integration and testing, while RHEL is Fedora-based commercially supported by RedHat system. CentOS is a repackaging of the RHEL's sources. Oracle reusing RHEL for its Unbreakable Linux. Why wouldn't you?

psadauskas 18y ago

I'd like to know, too. We use CentOS 5 for servers, and I hate it because anytime I want to do anything interesting, we have to compile stuff from source to get anything recent enough. (Ruby, Git, etc...)

c00p3r 18y ago
runing the rpmbuild --rebuild command on a Fedora's .src.rpm is not a rocket science.
c00p3r 18y ago
Ruby, git, etc - is a very portable userland packages. It means they almost independed from an OS. It means you can focus on the quality of the OS, while fresh user tools can be easily backported from bleeding edge distros like Fedora. I'm runing production servers which are 64-bit FC10 based systems onder the Xen 3.3 with kernels from CentOS. Resent Fedora lacks support of 64bit dom0, but CentOS has it. xen-hypervisor I'm using is from FC11. So, I have fresh developer tools along with latest Xen and very stable and well-tested kernel. It works pretty good. Linux is like Lego, not like Windows.