I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux?
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing now!)
I was once a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux user and switched to CentOS 4 without issue, and am assuming that I might need to do something similar if we decide to go this route.
Any feedback is appreciated!
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux?
Fresh install of 6.0 without a hitch a while ago.
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On 05/06/2011 01:31 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux?
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing now!)
I was once a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux user and switched to CentOS 4 without issue, and am assuming that I might need to do something similar if we decide to go this route.
Any feedback is appreciated!
We are getting fairly close to having a tree ready to send to QA. The goal for sending the tree is 10 May 2011. It might not happen before then, but it should happen within a week of that date.
Disclaimer: We may have something that fails to work and throws a monkey wrench in the plans ... but it is getting close.
I would expect once it is in QA that we can release in 2-4 weeks (maximum) from that point.
But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO).
On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:44:40 AM Johnny Hughes wrote:
But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO).
Yes, I'm pretty sure I want to switch to EL 6. Way back when, I was fairly aggressive switching to EL 4, and have enjoyed a very long, stable period as a result. I don't really want to switch frequently, I'd rather "shake it all out in one fell swoop" and then not worry about it again for as long as possible.
At this point, I'm likely to begin testing with SL 6, and then switch to CentOS (if it's available in time) prior to actual rollout in a few month's time.
I recognize (and appreciate!) CentOS' dedication to quality before punctuality, even if it is inconvenient at times.
-Ben
On 5/6/2011 1:44 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO).
In this business, mature is a synonym for ancient. But the bigger issue is that 3 years out may not cover the lifespan of a newly deployed server that you'd really like to keep running with nothing more complicated than 'yum update'.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 19:31, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.comwrote:
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing now!)
So buy RHEL.
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing now!)
Hi !
Here, we have a cluster of 8 nodes that we just deployed in RHEL 6 (the real thing, 14 k$/year). And with that, came other servers (router, test servers, developpement servers), and I wanted to have also the same OS. While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6, but it was troublesome to install packeges. So for those servers that were already installed, I switched them to SL6 without having to re-install, and it went great without a pain. I installed some other servers with SL6, and didn't noticed any difference.
I plan to switch those SL6 servers back to C6 when it's out, for uniformity reasons, I don't anticipate any problems then.
Regards,
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) From: Nicolas Ross rossnick-lists@cybercat.ca To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:38:42 PM
While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6, but it was troublesome to install packeges. So for those servers that were already installed, I switched them to SL6 without having to re-install, and it went great without a pain.
Did you perform a yum reinstall * or did you just update your repos?
--Blake
While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6, but it was troublesome to install packeges. So for those servers that were already installed, I switched them to SL6 without having to re-install, and it went great without a pain.
Did you perform a yum reinstall * or did you just update your repos?
I juste updated the repo and uninstalled some redhat packages :
rpm -e rhnlib rhn-client-tools rhn-setup yum-rhn-plugin rhn-check rhnsd redhat-indexhtml redhat-lsb
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-server-6Server rpm -hiv sl-release-6.0-6.0.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-logos rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-1.sl6.1.noarch.rpm
I did a test for yum reinstall *, and saw that 565 out of the 623 packages were to be re-installed, so I didn't want to get into problems with a remote server, I left it that way. I will do a reinstall on a server I got at the office, and I'll report back.
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