<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2012 22:19, Gary Stainburn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk" target="_blank">gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wednesday 11 July 2012 12:57:09 Anne Wilson wrote:<br>
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> I left CentOS for Scientific Linux because CentOS was horrifically<br>
> slow at getting security updates out. SL is at least more responsive<br>
> to this.<br>
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> Anne<br>
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I've always use RedHat followed by Fedora for my servers (and workstations for<br>
that matter).<br>
I did try moving to CentOS but was frustrated by the restrictive RPM base.<br>
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I haven't tried anything else yet, but was wondering what people's<br>
thoughts/suggestions were<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Among our clients, 98% of our servers are CentOS, mostly 5 but now some 6. More often than not they will have the EPEL repo and sometimes Atomic which isn't restrictive for a stable server environment. The speed of updates is because it's a voluntary project and the RedHat source code has to be recompiled into installable patches. The advantage of this is that it's a rock solid enterprise-class free operating system that's consistent everywhere, which is a huge advantage for hosting companies. Essential security patches are kept up to date and if you want anything away from the main channels, someone will build it or, with the source code, you can - the RPM system is surprisingly easy to work with.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On the desktop I still use Ubuntu. I like Unity but more because it doesn't get in my way than for any of its features, although I like the toolbar.. I'm not bothered about LTS releases as they have often been more unstable at the more esoteric end than the six monthly releases. I tend to give each new version a month to get stable after release. For that matter my NAS is an Ubuntu server. It's excellent for home servers because of the range of software available, not to mention that most how-tos are written for it.</div>
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