[Gloucs] Red Hat alternative

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

Definitely stick with CentOS. Things come and go as they are tested out 
in fedora. CentOS is compiled from the same source RPMs as RedHat is. 
Apart from the art work the distro is packaged as one big thing as 
against all these different things that RH seem intent on doing now 
(workstation, server, client etc). Makes life easier using CentOS. In 
fact get your company to switch to it :-) save them money. The release 
numbers also correlate with one another as well.

Tony.
John Patrick wrote:
> Cheers for the feed back, I'll try out CentOS.
>
> Regarding Debian/Ubuntu, I prefer a debian businesscard installation making
> a cleaner and simpler vm image. I've setup a debian vm that runs apt-proxy
> and use that when creating new vm's, improving installation speed and also
> allowing offline creation.
>
> John
>
> On 11 June 2010 20:50, Sean Keeney <seany at seanyseansean.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Centos. It's RHEL without the branding.
>>
>> If you're running Ubuntu as a VM then their JEOS respin is perfect, I don't
>> know if an equivalent is available for Centos. I also prefer Ubuntu Server
>> in a greenfield environment, but Centos is great assuming you realise its
>> limitations (older kernels and packages mainly)
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:33 PM, John Patrick <nhoj.patrick at gmail.com
>>     
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>> evening,
>>>
>>> I'm contracting back in Gloucester again so thought I'ld rejoin the list.
>>>
>>> The project I've joined is using Apache running on Red Hat, what would
>>> people suggest I install so I get more comfortable with red hat, either
>>> Fedora or CentOS?
>>>
>>> I've been using Solaris and Debian/Ubuntu for the past few years so my
>>>       
>> rpm
>>     
>>> skills and setup is a bit rusty. I'll be installing what people suggest
>>> inside VMWare Fusion on a Mac Book Pro, not sure if that will alter
>>>       
>> people
>>     
>>> thoughts.
>>>
>>> I basically want to get comfortable with installing, configuring,
>>> maintaining the os as well as setting up apache running multiple
>>>       
>> instances,
>>     
>>> some in different run users, some as nobody, etc. Basically get
>>>       
>> comfortable
>>     
>>> with using it...
>>>
>>> John
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