On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:52 PM, David Loke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to decide whether I should go for CentOS or Redhat on my new > server setup. Some users shared with me that if I need high uptime, I should > use Redhat which is a paid version. Paid version in general provide urgent > updates faster than free version. > I don't see how faster updates translates to higher uptime. For what it's worth, paid versions may have benefits in terms of better thought out security or dedicated infrastructure (not so much in terms of bandwidth, but that responsibility is all under one entity). As an example<http://www.cs.arizona.edu/%7Ejsamuel/papers/cappos-samuel-baker-hartman-ccs08.pdf>, commercial distributions like RHEL and SLES are protected from certain types of attacks against package managers simply because mirrors are hosted internally, whereas CentOS is open to abuse from malicious mirrors. P.S. I'm not doing anything malicious on my mirrors ;-)
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