On 11/11/2011 09:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> >> This list is for the community to use to get and provide support for >> CentOS ... not for constant bellyaching and non stop whining. This list >> has become non usable because of the trash that it has become. >> > > Are you deploying 6.x yourself yet in public facing sites - at least > ones not prepared to by RHEL licenses? Unless I missed something, > your last advice posted here was to stick to 5.x. What's the > official support position on that today? > There is no official position. I personally use 5.x for almost everything because there are still more than 2.5 years of support for 5.x, 5.x is very stable, and 6.x is still very new. However, just from a "security perspective" either 5.x or 6.x is fine now if you are using CR. There are 2182 "6.1" or newer RPMS in the x86_64 CR repo right now. I certainly use 6.x on my workstation machines ... admittedly they are not normally directly Internet facing. I do recommend that people give weight to security and consider buying RHEL licenses for critical machines, but there are millions of satisfied CentOS users. I know several Universities that have deployed 6.x or are going to do so in the next couple of months. I know that Dell is using CentOS for deploying application appliances, Facebook is using CentOS, cPanel uses CentOS in a huge percentage of their deployments, 8 of the top 500 super computers in the world are CentOS, and that CentOS is still the most used version of Linux on the internet: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all I would also like to point out that the cPanel, Plesk and OpenVZ deployments of CentOS (about 1/2 of the total deployed CentOS web servers on the Internet) do not even show up as "CentOS" ... they show up as "unknown Unix" on that survey. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111111/ba0f60bd/attachment-0004.sig>