Timo, Its interesting, I am presently attending a conference in NYC and in one of the tables I saw the redhat vendor. My first question to them was " What do you think about centos", they reply "You are using a distribution without support and that is prompt to failure..." I don't think this is an accurate statement is it? Anyway to make the story short, they keep telling how bad centos is for our datacenter and that I should consider adopting redhat which is more "robust", offers "virtualization" and nearly real-time support for its customers. I didn't go the extra mile to ask for pricing but would appreciate your input about what they said about centos. Lisandro
Timo Schoeler 12/14/10 9:44 AM >>>
thus Lisandro Grullon spake:
Thank u timo, I will test this further when I get home. I have been having
nightmares getting this card working from an OS iso, it appears that the card is very new and the drivers have not been integrated into the distributions or kernel. The alternative is to load the driver via console using any of the modules supply by LSI. Thank you again Timo for your guidance. Lisandro
You're welcome.
Ah, and welcome to the world of proprietary drivers. This is something that the OpenBSD guys do right: They ignore them. ;)
Timo
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thus Lisandro Grullon spake:
Thank u andrea for the response, but unfortunately a floppy its not an option in my box. Can u guide me using a usb flash drive. Much appreciated. Lisandro
Should work similar to writing to a FDD.
Maybe you have to experiment if plugging the stick into the machine *before* booting or when anaconda requests the driver disk works -- I have seen machines behave differently in this regard.
Timo
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Timo, Its interesting, I am presently attending a conference in NYC and in
one of the tables I saw the redhat vendor.
My first question to them was " What do you think about centos",
they reply "You are using a distribution
without support and that is prompt to failure..." I don't think this
is an accurate statement is it? Anyway to
make the story short, they keep telling how bad centos is for our
datacenter and that I should consider
adopting redhat which is more "robust", offers "virtualization" and
nearly real-time support for its customers.
I didn't go the extra mile to ask for pricing but would appreciate
your input about what they said about centos.
Lisandro
CentOS == RedHat. CentOS has every bug that RedHat has. CentOS has every bug fix that RedHat has. When RedHat rolls out a new version (e.g. RHEL6.0) there is a lag of a few months rolling out the CentOS release of the same version; for bug fixes the lag is a few days.
So, the price of RedHat is money, the price for CentOS is patience. The product sold by RedHat is support, the product 'sold by' CentOS is self-support. The relative value of the two arises from your ability to support your systems.
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Brunner, Brian T. BBrunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
CentOS == RedHat. CentOS has every bug that RedHat has. CentOS has every bug fix that RedHat has. When RedHat rolls out a new version (e.g. RHEL6.0) there is a lag of a few months rolling out the CentOS release of the same version; for bug fixes the lag is a few days.
No. It's not. CentOS lacks a number of the clustering features available to RHEL, which are burdened by non-open-source licenses or patents. RHEL is also investing considerable money in development, which is helpful to support, especially if you need bleeding edge drivers (as someone just needed here for a new SAS controller), and for which you'd have to hope Google has an answer or you find someone like, well, *me* to bundle you a new version nad fix it for you.
CentOS is also much, much faster to update once the updates are published, and to use OS image building tools like "mock", because of the distributed source repository rather than the burdensome DRM involved in the RHN registration tools. CentOS also publishes kernels with NTFS and similar support that RHEL has been leery of.
So, the price of RedHat is money, the price for CentOS is patience. The product sold by RedHat is support, the product 'sold by' CentOS is self-support. The relative value of the two arises from your ability to support your systems.
And to cover your ass.
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