Re:Centos 6 released
by ghshephard on Monday July 11, 2011 @03:27AM
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The "Brand" CentOS says to me "This distribution is binary identical to RHEL - you can do all your development on it, and deploy hundreds of servers running it - and be able to run all of the software qualified for RHEL. You can also write, and test, software on this platform, and have your _customers_ then run that software on their instances of RHEL"
I don't have that level of faith in SL's distro, it will probably take a year or so of observation before I would consider it a potential replacement for CentOS.
Even convincing engineers, and developers, that they could develop on CentOS and have some assurance that their code would run fine on RHEL without extensive regression testing was a challenge.
And even with all this - Oracle won't provide you support if you run their RHEL qualified Database Server on CentOS.
I guess this is just a long way of saying, I _don't_ know that SL is a binary compatible RHEL distro, but I do know that about CentOS. That's what the brand name does for me.
I don't have that level of faith in SL's distro, it will probably take a year or so of observation before I would consider it a potential replacement for CentOS.
Even convincing engineers, and developers, that they could develop on CentOS and have some assurance that their code would run fine on RHEL without extensive regression testing was a challenge.
And even with all this - Oracle won't provide you support if you run their RHEL qualified Database Server on CentOS.
I guess this is just a long way of saying, I _don't_ know that SL is a binary compatible RHEL distro, but I do know that about CentOS. That's what the brand name does for me.