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Re: [Xen-users] Cluster (VPC), Eucalyptus and preferred distribution to
Luke S Crawford wrote:
> Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Some of the reasons: CentOS is just plain stupid, rpm and yum are plain
>> buggy, upgrades are a real pain, yum is so slow and memory eating,
>
> rpm is, yes, suboptimal.
>
> the advantage of CentOS is twofold.
>
> 1. you can get a lot of money SysAdmining RHEL boxes for big dumb companies
> that feel they need to pay for things. the other side of that coin is
> that there are a lot of SysAdmins familiar with the RedHat way of doing
> things.
>
> 2. RHEL actually does a pretty good job testing things, and keeping things
> stable and compatable within a release. You are pretty safe running
> 'yum update' and rebooting. With many other distros, well, often an
> upgrade actually changes things.
Let's not mixup CentOS and RHEL. There's a BIG BIG difference in
quality, updates, etc.
As for the "SysAdmins familiar with the RedHat way", well, there is also
a lot of people familiar with windows and ... [complete yourself here].
I don't think this is a good technical argument.
Thomas
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