[CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

Mathieu Baudier mbaudier at argeo.org
Tue Dec 14 11:29:21 UTC 2010


> And also take into consideration that RHEL6 is shipped with approx.
> 2.000 packages.  And there are over 10.000 packages available for
> Fedora.  Such a limited package scope is needed to be able to provide
> stability.  And this stability is why so many loves to run
> RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux instead of many other Linux distros on their
> servers.

The fact that the number of packages is pretty limited in core
RHEL/CentOS also makes that with additional repos such as EPEL (or
RPMForge) you can have a lot of recent software. EPEL additionally
guarantees that the base OS won't be updated.

Then you can always decide to backport some software for a given
field, using the rest as a stable basis.
As Karanbir Singh pointed out in a recent interview in DistroWatch, it
can be much easier to innovate and be cutting edge in a given field if
the rest stays stable, instead of doing so when the whole distribution
is a moving target as in Fedora.



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