Re:Ask HN: RHEL based or Debian based?
by FireBeyond on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @12:30PM
(#4943625)
I went for years as a RHEL/Centos guy, but over time I've become frustrated with the age of packages supplied. I know there are "solutions", in the form of the EPEL repository, RPMForge and the like, but in the end, they become a stopgap, and lead to all manner of issues with dependencies.
I've recently grown pretty enamored with Ubuntu 12, and the ease of package management. For me, the growing integration with LXC (which I love for the benefit of "light" VMs / isolation) is becoming buttery smooth.
Support has always been a question, but in 8 years of experience with approximately 50+ servers at multiple locations and clients, I've not once needed to contact RedHat.
Re:Ask HN: RHEL based or Debian based?
by csense on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @06:56PM
(#4945544)
I agree. Sometimes you simply must have recent versions of certain packages, and it's much likelier that you'll be able to do that out-of-the-box on Debian/Ubuntu.
I've recently grown pretty enamored with Ubuntu 12, and the ease of package management. For me, the growing integration with LXC (which I love for the benefit of "light" VMs / isolation) is becoming buttery smooth.
Support has always been a question, but in 8 years of experience with approximately 50+ servers at multiple locations and clients, I've not once needed to contact RedHat.