[RLUG] yum / rhel

[John Dell]

Hi Charles,

Charles Stevenson wrote:
...
> There are lots of hidden nightmares for one who would do a cross-arch
> repository like that.  When I was the ia64 port maintainer for Tao Linux
> I experiemnted with this to some extent.  If one wishes to use an RHEL
> rebuild and save tons and tons of money forgoing the support than I
> highly recommend that.  I'm not sure why you'd want to run RHEL unless
> you're using Oracle or something... anyways.  You can always login to

If you are running a production server, and don't want to worry about 
having to do major upgrades, RHEL/clones give you 5 years of guaranteed 
security updates (if you installed early in the release cycle).  That 
beats anything else out there that I'm aware of.  Also, FWIW there were 
some recent complaints about the turn-around time for debian security 
updates.

> the... was it called Primier or was that Intel.  I think that was for
> Intel compilers... ::sigh:: damn memory.  Obviously I'm partial to Tao
> Linux over Whitebox, CentOS (*shudder*) or any other RHEL clone.  Yet I
> can't help wanting to scream (USE DEBIAN!!) ;-)

What is it about CentOS that makes you *shudder*?  Not trying to pick a 
fight, but I've been happily using it for over a year.

John