Neil Neely <[email protected]> writes: > Has anyone on the list done a cost benefit analysis of Red Hat vs Cent OS?
$CLIENT and $OLDJOB used RedHat. they had infinite monies. the RedHat support was quite good (I mean, good as far as paid support ever goes, which isn't very far.) So yeah. nice if you have infinite monies. I use CentOS myself (with the xen.org kernel) for the Xen0. RedHat usually is a day late on the security patches,but CentOS is usually the same day as RedHat. I use it because it is a supported userland that works well with the 2.6.18 kernel (the xen.org stable kernel is also 2.6.18) > $WORK is a very cost conscious environment so I didn't ever do any serious > evaluation of Red Hat, but found I have really liked Cent OS. I'd love to > hear from anyone who has operated both and any insight you can share on this > topic. go with RedHat if you are spending other people's money. they can be nice to have (Once, I had a datacenter full of boxes giving me MCE errors. I kept pulling 'em and making site-ops run memtest. turns out it was some bug in the TLB of the (at the time new) low-power quad-core xeons. RedHat earned it's money that day.) Now, I wouldn't pay for it personally, as for the grand and a half they want for the enterprise support licence, well, I can get a box with 8 cores and 32GiB ram for a grand and a half. But if you are going to pay a lot of money for support, well, you could do a whole lot worse than paying that money to RedHat. > My desire to know more about this topic pre-dates the Drama over at > http://centos.org, however that drama has added motivation to ask the > question sooner rather than later. I would not worry that much. the assets they are likely to loose include the website and some cash; I think they control the actual servers they need, so worst comes to worst, they change names. (note, i have no special knowledge of that situation, that's just my opinion based on what I've read) -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
