On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53 am, Dan Colish wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman > <larry.brig...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael >> Robinson<plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: >> > I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS >> > sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. >> >
-- snip -- > One of the nice advantages of CentOS piggy-backing on RHEL is that it is > supported for what seems like forever. There is still a stable release of > CentOS 3 with backports and updates. For these kind of distributions there > should not be a 3 or 5 year cut off since the systems they are used to > build > will be running for much longer and need to be extremely stable. When you > run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google > uses... ) Google is large enough that using it's own distribution could make economic sense -- since it's not distributing it 'out of house' I suspect that it could even keep it's own changes private, if it wanted to. But that's just supposition -- I'd like to know too. -- Tim Wescott Control systems and communications consulting http://www.wescottdesign.com Land line: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug