[Ma-linux] CentOS

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Two words: Virtual Machines. All Rackspace needs to support is your Dom 0.

JIM

On 7/22/2010 1:11 PM, Zachariah Mully wrote:
> We use EL5 in production (with the epel repo) and centos for 
> development/qa. Works great (esp now that they switched from up2date 
> to yum. Yum still can't hold a candle to apt-get but it is a vast 
> improvement)
>
> I'd prefer debian, but rackspace doesn't support it.
>
> Z
>
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> On Jul 22, 2010 12:48 PM, John Holland <jbholland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, good points. But....
>
> if Redhat dies CentOS dies. But CentOS could also die on its own with
> RedHat still OK.
>
> If RedHat ever released something closed source (open core style) and no
> free distribution
> Centos would not be able to use it.
>
> Another possibility is to get a JBoss Developer Studio kit which costs
> $95 and includes a RHEL license
> "for development only". I don't know the exact details on this and
> running a server on it that did anything
> (eg email server) might not be legit.
>
>
> On 07/22/2010 11:33 AM, Winter wrote:
> >> mutant issue:
> >> CentOS is sort of a parasite on RH and could cease to exist if RH
> >> decided to give them grief or the project could just fall apart
> >>
> > RedHat is very good about honoring the letter and the spirit of FLOSS
> > and make all source RPM's available to anyone for download. If I had
> > the gumption I could build my own system from their SRPMs. I wouldn't
> > call that being a parasite, I'd call that Free Software in action.
> >
> > I'm willing to bet CentOS increases the RedHat userbase. RedHat
> > benefits from the work of CentOS users, and they gain more
> > administrators and developers who are savvy with The RedHat Way.
> >
> > There's an old but interesting discussion about this very subject on
> > Slashdot:
> >
> > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1331247
> >
> >
> > As for the project just falling apart...well, yes, that could happen.
> > Indeed they had a shaky moment last summer.
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10300222-92.html
> >
> > They got through it, however. And I'd think they're stronger for it.
> >
> > RedHat themselves could just fall apart as well. Things happen.
> >
> >
> > W.
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