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Wed Jan 2 09:08:54 UTC 2013

Hi

So what do I install ?

Kévin

2012/12/25 Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>

> 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
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