Chuck Munro wrote: > > 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 in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many changes of how thing work. Ljubomir