On 4/19/2011 1:39 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
I'm not sure there is an open-source software company in existence that releases more high quality, open source software for use by the general public. Whatever we can say about Red Hat,
if we really didn't like the results of their efforts, we wouldn't be here, now would we?
Here's a more objective view from Linux Mag:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8608/?hq_e=el&hq_m=1231269&hq_l=12&h...
If you have trouble with the link, some relevant quotes:
"Enterprise-class is partially true, as the project takes great pains to be binary compatible with RHEL. So let’s give half points for that one. The other half of “enterprise-class” is that updates arrive in a timely fashion, which is notably false for the 5.x series. If I understand correctly, there have been a handful of updates prior to the release of CentOS 5.6 for the 5.x series — but nothing else. So, if you consider timely updates a requirement for “enterprise-class,” we can count CentOS out now."
OK, so they don't _quite_ understand (or word) that correctly - the slowness didn't go all the way back to 5.0, but the point stands.
And: "Nobody Got Fired for Buying IBM: You Might for Deploying CentOS" with some elaboration about how the question from your boss about when a known vulnerability will be patched might go.