On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:21 -0500, gregg wrote: > I must differ in opinion here. Although Debian and CentOS are very good > distros. Neither is Enterprise class like RHEL and SLES.
Oh how I'd beg to differ. Debian Stable is pretty good and maintains a good number of backports. No, it's not as anal as RHEL or SLES, but is serves a different focus. As far as CentOS, it strives to be RHEL. Read what you want into it, but when the CEO of Red Hat says something positive about it, and notes that Red Hat has to keep delivering additional values to the customer, it means they are doing a fine job. > Nor do either have as many functional and security certifications. This is a footnote in a LPIC-1 course. It's a good point, and should be noted, but in reality, IHV/ISV and various security certification is another matter entirely, separate from training. > I won't dispute the fact that many distros are out their in use. I > see enterprises running Open SUSE, Fedora, ... The downside of these > is they have a short lifecycle and require a lot more work to upgrade > after 12 or 18 months. Most Enterprise OS versions these days are > supported and maintained for five to seven years. Making them much > better choices for a production OS in development, staging, and > production environments. Depends on the environment. But yes, where you're going to be deploying and the app doesn't change for 3+ years, agreed. For more dynamic environments, I have to differ. This too should also be a note. Debian and CentOS are fine choices for LPIC-1 training. -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith ------------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
