[CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!
Ross Walker
rswwalker at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 14:10:26 UTC 2011
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Ian Murray <murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Only joking. I take your point, but the critical fixes being held up for a dot
> release isn't really very Enterprise friendly either. I think it fair to say
> that CentOS is not suitable for the enterprise unless the servers are
> non-public, on a secure network and the risk of internal hacking is low. That is
> just an unfortunate nature of a rebuild project but it does make the release
> time a sensitive matter.
>
> Karanbir tweeted during FOSDEM that the Belgian police use CentOS. As everyone
> who is paying attention knows that any exploit that RedHat has released an
> updated package for post is 5.6 is sat waiting to be exploited on those police
> servers because it won't make the CentOS repositories until 5.6 is out. I wonder
> if the Belgian police know that.
>
> So.... if anybody can be bothered to check the errata from upstream and want to
> do some mischief.....fill your boots...
>
> http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be
The best thing CentOS gives you is choice.
If your critical machines need updates in a more timely manner, then put RHEL on them. For those that don't put CentOS on them and save $$$.
Free is free and it comes free of warranty or guarantee or any other tee.
-Ross
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