[Gloucs] Red Hat alternative

[Matthew Phillips]

If your planning a new install it might be worth considering centOS
6beta if it's out? Rh6 is in beta so you might as well move away from
5. Fedora is more bleeding edge so you'll get more functionality but
also more bugs.

Few weeks ago I passed my RHCE and although the tutor tried to push
RedHat and it's support and network I don't really think there is much
benefit to small companies over using centos. If you do save them
money it'll help with your next pay review :-)

All in all I use ubuntu server, less hassle, things justwork and if
they don't the community support is huge.

Matthew Phillips
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On 12 Jun 2010, at 10:46, Anthony Edward Cooper <aecooper at coosoft.plus.com
 > wrote:

> 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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