On 05/07/2011 09:00 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > > I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their > experiences using Scientific Linux? > > I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand > there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 > as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will > need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug > 1, we need to start regression testing now!) > > I was once a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux user and switched to CentOS 4 without > issue, and am assuming that I might need to do something similar if we decide > to go this route. > > Any feedback is appreciated! I had to complete a new VM Host machine before CentOS-6 was ready, so I used SL-6 as the underpinnings. It simply worked, once I ironed out a couple of unrelated hardware issues. It auto-updates and lets me know when that's been done, but it doesn't reboot unless I want to, so there's little risk in allowing the updates. Auto-update can be disabled if you prefer. So far it has been flawless. It's managing two very large software RAID-6 arrays and 7 Guest VMs on a dual-Xeon Supermicro motherboard. All of the VM Guest OS's are CentOS-5.6 which works well for my applications. I may or may not upgrade the Guests to C6, depending on need. CentOS has been so reliable that I'm reluctant to move to a different platform. I've used Ubuntu Server and it works well, but I'm more familiar with the RHEL way of doing things so I'll stick with CentOS. One thing I don't know much about is an in-place upgrade of C5 to C6. There are some under-the-hood differences that must be taken into account, which I haven't looked into. YMMV, Chuck