Alter Way server ready to be delivered

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

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.html