Re: Alter Way server ready to be delivered
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
On 12/19/2012 08:48 PM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
>In another thread or the weekly meeting we decided on centos.
Before we close out that discussion, let me just add that Red Hat
Enterprise Linux is an option, and colleagues in Red Hat have
provided me with the means to get entitlements, if we decided to
install RHEL.
What are the arguments for & against RHEL vs CentOS?
From the minutes[1]:
15:18:31 <quaid> #topic Hosting
15:18:39 <mburns`> eedri_: i'll look
15:18:58 <dneary> Alter Way - Kévin's back on the case after a busy spell, and
he just needs to know what OS we want on our server
15:19:30 <eedri_> dneary, i think centos 6.3 will be fine...
15:19:33 <dneary> #info Kévin Mazière got back to us, and asked what operating
system we want on the server. RHEL is OK, but we need to supply a license
15:19:34 <quaid> +1
15:19:43 <quaid> yay, info!
15:19:45 <dneary> #agreed CentOS 6.3
15:19:48 <eedri_> rhel 6.3 is preffarable of coursed
15:19:56 <eedri_> but if we don't have lic, then centos
15:20:06 <quaid> eedri_: actually, I think CentOS might be preferable, too :)
15:20:15 <dneary> quaid, IIRC, you took xcare of license provisioning for old
servers, yes?
15:20:17 <eedri_> quaid, sure :)
15:20:18 <quaid> it's the common platform for the oVirt users, right?
15:20:29 <quaid> dneary: Linode runs CentOS
15:20:31 <eedri_> quaid, isn't that fedora?
15:20:32 <dneary> Ah
15:20:39 <dneary> Then let's not lose sleep over it.
15:20:44 <dneary> CentOS 6.3 it is
15:20:50 <ewoud> +1
15:21:13 <quaid> eedri_: not really, people seem to prefer CentOS over Fedora for
infrastructure deployments
15:21:23 <quaid> fine with me, all-in-the-family
15:21:31 <eedri_> +1 for centos 6.3
So the short summary is that some prefer RHEL, some CentOS because it
can be a more common platform for our users but there wasn't a long
discussion.
Personally I only have experience with CentOS and no RHEL but no strong
preference.
[1]: http://resources.ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2012/ovirt.2012-12-17-15.06.log...