On 4/13/2011 1:01 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > >>> How many INSTALLS of CentOS do you still choose to have? >> >> I think you know the answer for CentOS 6. I haven't deployed any new >> services on CentOS since the 5.4 release, and am generally losing to >> the >> guy who favors SUSE here - and even the horde that favors Windows >> which >> has always been our largest deployment. > > > Gross, Winblowz! > > We use it as a workstation VM in a pretty large scale but since its a > VM, doesn't seem so bad as our host and primary OS is Centos. My gut feeling is the same, but it goes back to Win2k and earlier days. I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid. > We've had some traction on Suse but since there is no comparable > project like Centos in the Suse realm, its Centos all the way baby! The SUSE-favoring guy has some tests that he says shows that their real-time kernel is essential for what his programs do - which is probably true for one particular instance. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com