On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> >> heck it's still Linux and pretty much the same. >> >> Red Hat went far too long between releases and it is clear to me that I >> can't possibly rely on CentOS for timeliness. > > Timeliness, dunno. Ubuntu (or fedora) for production? NOT IF I HAVE ANY > CONTROL!!! Given how many developers write incredibly fragile code, that > is utterly dependent upon a very, very special environment, I guarantee > that the almost daily updates will break it, or the New Features! I've been running Ubuntu boxes (in production) at various companies without a hitch - initially with a lot of skepticism. There's also one company where I support twenty Fedora boxes (which is a pain because there isn't an LTS version) but I kicked off that company's use of Linux with RH (not RHEL) 5 and the IT manager doesn't want to move to another distribution.