[Klug-general] Samba....

[MacGyveR]

On Tuesday 26 Apr 2011, Peter Childs wrote:
> On 26 April 2011 21:37, Alex Layfield <alex.layfield at sky.com> wrote:
> > I'd still take a look @ ClearOS...
> >
> > Quite easy...
> >
> > Has pretty much everything u should need...
> >
> > Webmin-able of course...
>
> From what I can see it does it does 50 things I don't want as well!
>
> Just a quick straw pole, does anyone here actually use a Cent-OS based
> distro on a day to day basis?
>
> There seams to be quite a few Cent-OS based disros around, usually for
> quite specific "server" based jobs. where the creators don't want them
> played with, (or at least only in the ways they specify)
>
> Its like Cent-OS is being used in a lot of places to gain the Free of
> Linux without gaining the other benefit of it being Open ie the
> Freedom. (Which when you read the small print rather means its not
> Free at all! One could argue that some of these "products" verge on
> breaking the GPL, I'm still trying to work out what ClearOS are
> selling, I think its hardware and support but I'm not sure!
>
> Peter
>
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Centos is used at the day job in internal and external servers. I find it is 
stable and updates without any problems. But it has been slow of late to 
release new versions, which is fine as long as you don't want the latest 
features to play with.