On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:49:45 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the second (separate) issue is: where does one get centos support? Way back when, I remember reading something that said words to the effect of "If you can carry your own water, Linux is free." The reverse is also true. > and i *don't* know how to answer that. a previous poster listed a > number of places: wiki, mailing lists, IRC. which is all well and > good, but will mean *nothing* to a large company whose only concern > is: "if something goes horribly, horribly wrong, who do i call to > demand to fix it?" that's all they care about -- someone to yell at. > they're not going to accept that they should start joining mailing > lists or hanging out on IRC chats. If that's the situation, Centos will not meet their needs. RHEL is what they want, and the answer to the who-to-call question becomes Red Hat. I've never used RHEL myself, but I get the impression that you don't get to "play the edge" quite as much as you can get away with on Centos because you need to insure that you keep a maintainable RHEL system, where maintainable is defined by Red Hat. But RHEL is really the only answer to your question. Centos ain't it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com