On 5/6/2011 1:44 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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> But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would
> only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle
> UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support
> before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO).
In this business, mature is a synonym for ancient. But the bigger issue
is that 3 years out may not cover the lifespan of a newly deployed
server that you'd really like to keep running with nothing more
complicated than 'yum update'.
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