[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Joel Bernstein]

On 7 Jul 2009, at 12:19, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> IMHO, CentOS and Redhat can be used interchangeably and I do.

What's the benefit in running CentOS? Presumably one would only select  
a RHEL-type distro with a very limited set of available packages if  
one needed to deploy commercial applications which were only certified  
on it? Surely Oracle and so on don't certify on CentOS too?

Is there another use case which I'm missing, where your sysadmins  
don't spend all day building RPMs from source because you use a cut- 
down backport-based distro with a tiny number of packages available,  
and where using an OS whose only rationale is its support contract  
without a support contract isn't batshit insane?

/joel


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug