Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 09, 2006 04:22 AM
I have CentOS on 5 remote database servers at customer sites that are out of state ( one is in another country). I went with CentOS because it would be supported for several years, and because the budget just wasn't there for RHEnterprise.
The systems have been rock solid for 3 years now. I mean ROCK SOLID day in and day out without even a hiccup. They are sitting on IBM servers and run data bases that are the back end for reservations systems for their owners. They run for months without a reboot. In fact the only reboots I can remember were caused by power outages or kernel upgrades.
There really isn't that much differece between CentOS and RHE. RHE does give your executives the "We run ENTERPRISE software" fuzzies and I suppose that the support is nice although I have never called them. If you have some funky apps or are spending big money on a big money database then you might as well go with RHE just so when your DB goes sideways they can't tell you that you are on an unsupported platform. But, if you are a smaller company or are using the usual opensource (lamp type) apps then I would go with CentOS.
As far as using it for a desktop, I don't know. I guess that it would be good for work desktops. Both RH and CentOS have the same stoggy, feel. Neither one is very sexy but they are both solid.
I don't know that I would put either one on a home machine where you would be more interested in multimedia, and digital cameras an stuff like that. Not that you can't make all of that stuff work on CentOS or RH, you can.
There are also third party repositories that will flesh them out with newer, flashier stuff. Problem is that that takes away the stability factor which was the main reason you went with RH or CentOS in the first place.
Bottom line...
A great OS. Use where stability is key and your admins are more comfortable with a RH type distro. (Remote servers, large numbers of work desktops, your parents in another state that only want email, etc)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 09, 2006 04:22 AMThe systems have been rock solid for 3 years now. I mean ROCK SOLID day in and day out without even a hiccup. They are sitting on IBM servers and run data bases that are the back end for reservations systems for their owners. They run for months without a reboot. In fact the only reboots I can remember were caused by power outages or kernel upgrades.
There really isn't that much differece between CentOS and RHE. RHE does give your executives the "We run ENTERPRISE software" fuzzies and I suppose that the support is nice although I have never called them. If you have some funky apps or are spending big money on a big money database then you might as well go with RHE just so when your DB goes sideways they can't tell you that you are on an unsupported platform. But, if you are a smaller company or are using the usual opensource (lamp type) apps then I would go with CentOS.
As far as using it for a desktop, I don't know. I guess that it would be good for work desktops. Both RH and CentOS have the same stoggy, feel. Neither one is very sexy but they are both solid.
I don't know that I would put either one on a home machine where you would be more interested in multimedia, and digital cameras an stuff like that. Not that you can't make all of that stuff work on CentOS or RH, you can.
There are also third party repositories that will flesh them out with newer, flashier stuff. Problem is that that takes away the stability factor which was the main reason you went with RH or CentOS in the first place.
Bottom line...
A great OS. Use where stability is key and your admins are more comfortable with a RH type distro. (Remote servers, large numbers of work desktops, your parents in another state that only want email, etc)
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