I realise linux distros are rather a "religious" matter where each individual/user/sysadmin/whatever think that "their" particular distro is the best. 8-)
With that said, in my case, chosing CentOS was actually a no-brainer, as our department had already settled with RHEL3/4 for application reasons years ago. Furthermore, since CentOS is a binary compatible with RHEL, and looks and feel the same (minus the RHEL-logos), it's also easy to test things out with a free OS first. I however really started out with Fedora Core for a short while, but was flustered with the fast update-schedule. Anyway, I don't even know or remember how I found out about CentOS, only that I felt this strange rush, much like when you put a nice well-worn-in suit or something and it doesn't chafe anywhere. I never bothered looking for another distro after finding CentOS. I even installed it for the beloved mother after I found a potential rootkit on her WinXP Home Ed-machine. I had had it at that point... After installing CentOS5 for her, I applied the Redmond theme and let her play around for a bit with it. Worked like a charm. The hd died on her machine a few months back so I reinstalled it for her again, this time w/o the Redmond theme, and it still works like a charm for her. >From a user-perspective, if a 50ish-year-old woman with no interest in OS:es >(or anything IT for that matter) can use CentOS without a hitch, then neither should anybody else. It just works, which I rather like, to put it mildly... If there ever was a linux-success story, this is the one. [advocate mode]If you like CentOS, please buy a RHEL entitlement whenever possible. Remember, if there is no RHEL, there won't be a CentOS either, and CentOS is too good to loose.[/advocate mode] That's my 3 oere. 8-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup] On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alain Terriault <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM: > > How do you mean "big sophisticated setup"? > > I think CentOS is rather easy to setup, in fact CentOS was the OS of choice > when I first started with linux. I'm not fishing for flaming or trolling, > just > curious on why you think like you do. 8-) > > 'ear, 'ear! I dabbled in Linux for nine years, including a six month semi-concerted effort to use SuSE/Novell Linux (for which I paid $40), none of which did it for me. CentOS, in one month, impressed me enough to spend almost $400 to upgrade my primary home desktop hardware so I could install CentOS and run a Windows VMWare guest on it, and I've never been more delighted with a small system with huge capabilities. It was (and is) easy to install and easy to manage, and the only real trouble I've had with the system has come from other, non-CentOS related areas (including all the things that I thought were CentOS problems...). Them's my $0.03 (inflation, y'know...). mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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