I've been bashing CentOS/RHEL for several years now, and everyone cried foul for me doing so. We have experienced serious breakage due to stale packages as already mentioned before. Not just feature issues, but breakage... as in bugs that should be fixed with a simple package update. Like syncrepl in OpenLDAP being broken and no hope of a patch release. Works fine on other platforms. Known bug... no patch or update from Red Hat.
Platforms at $DAY_JOB are now Debian or SL - CentOS no more. I wish they could find a happy medium between stability & patches. They haven't found it yet IMO. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joshua Frugé <jfru...@lsu.edu> wrote: > > > On 05/12/2011 07:01, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Ray <rdej...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any of you following the current CentOS controversy? Management >> issues, lack of communication, lack of manpower, timeliness of >> releases and security updates. Ie, after RHEL 5.6 was released, it >> took 3 months to get CentOS 5.6 released. And a full 6 months after >> RHEL 6 was released, there is still no CentOS 6. >> >> A lot of the community is migrating to Scientific Linux. Just >> wondering if any of you have, or are considering making the switch. >> >> ray >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General@brlug.net >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > I haven't been following the controversy, but I've moved away from CentOS > in the last year because I got tired of dealing with stale packages. While > I understand that RHEL/CentOS drive toward stability and not being on the > bleeding edge, being several minor releases back on packages like PostgreSQL > and Ruby was really keeping some of the functionality/improvements I > wanted/needed from being utilized. > > Ronnie > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing > listGeneral@brlug.nethttp://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > In addition to Cent issues, redhat changed things for rhel6. In past > releases patches were listed numerically in the repos, so building (reverse > engineering) was easier. A coworker seems to feel the 5.6 release seems > have worn then down as well, and they just plain need more people. > > -- > Joshua Frugé > High Performance Computing > Louisiana State university225-578-3363jfru...@lsu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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