On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:04:56PM -0500, Nicolas Ross wrote: > Hi ! > > We are curently deploying an 8 nodes cluster where we have a RHEL 6 > license at great costs (~14 k$/y). It will be our new production > environment for mission-critical services. > > Now our aging developpement server (old p4 with 1.5 gig of ram) need > to be updated. We will be installing on hardware as close as possible > to the new production servers, just not in a rack... > > For the developement server, I won't be needing the RH support (and > price that goes with it). So I wsish to install it under CentOS. But > 6 isn't out yet. (by the way, when ;-) ?). I do have a spare slot in > my rhn that I can install the new server with. > > Will RHEL 6 be as easy to switch to CentOS 6 as were RHEL/CentOS 5 ? > That is install a couple of rpms, yum update and voilà ? > > Thanks, There are procedures to convert for RHEL5, and no doubt something similar will work for RHEL6 as well. Antother option is ScientificLinux 6.0, which although not out yet either has a public rolling 6.0 release available that I recently installed from for similar reasons as you. I'll likely try to convert it to CentOS 6 when it's available, so we'll see how that goes. :) Ray