[CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

Sat Jun 4 02:56:04 UTC 2011
Thomas Harold <thomas-lists at nybeta.com>

On 6/3/2011 10:12 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> That's not what I said. I said Red Hat's redistribution restriction
>> created the need for Ubunutu.  And that the community that is now
>> dependent on RH-rebuilds might be better served by a distribution that
>> does not restrict redistribution in the first place.  These aren't
>> cause/effect but you could put them together if you want.
>
> Everyone is free to use what they want -- that's the cool thing about
> Linux -- choice. But, for me, Ubuntu is too "bleeding edge" to be a
> viable replacement for Red Hat/CentOS.
>

There's only about half a dozen distros that I consider good enough for 
server work.  The advantage of using distros from the RHEL family line 
is that Red Hat's primary focus is business, which means I can count on 
them being a lot more conservative about changing / breaking things then 
the bleeding edge distros.

If I didn't have access to RHEL / CentOS / SL, then I'd probably run 
either Debian or Ubuntu LTS on servers.  Because once you get past a 
certain point, Linux is Linux.  The major differences tend to lie in 
package management, start-up scripts, systems administration and the GUI 
administration tools.  Applications like PostgreSQL, Apache, etc. 
generally don't care which version of Linux they run on.