AJ ONeal wrote: > Eh... I have a strong disgust for RHEL. They have nothing in the repo, you > have to compile just about everything from source or get it from a 3rd > party.
Stay away from my servers! :) The very few things I need that aren't in the official packages are in rpmforge and every once in a blue moon, EPEL. But everything I do from mail servers to web servers to name servers to dhcp and tftp to samba all work very well from stock packages. I wouldn't want it any other way actually, since these are mission-critical systems where uptime is important (or so they think). Every so often PHP 5.1 is a problem for us, but in general we gain more from having the same versions and ABIs of everything for the full 3 to 5 years. > After my experiences with my boss' installation and the issues he's gone > through, I would never use RHEL for a server - too much work!!! Sounds like you shouldn't have chose RHEL in the first place. Your company's needs were a little to esoteric for RHEL. I'm curious to know what you were doing with your servers that required you to "compile just about everything." Running about 20 RHEL servers myself, I find RHEL to be an excellent choice for what I'm doing. In the rare instances that we need to compile something from source, our policy is that we must wrap the program in an RPM. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
