Re: debian vs centos as server
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:13 +0000
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:38:18AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > hhding wrote:
> > >why debian?
> > >why centos?
> > >
> > >It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server.
> > >But managers want run centos instead.
> > >
> >
> > If you are using some proprietary software that is supported on
> > RHEL (or Centos) and not on Debian, and you depend on that support.
> >
> > Can't think of any other reasons. We run a couple of proprietary
> > applications at work that are only supported on RHEL. I have had no
> > problem running them on Debian Etch. YMMV.
>
> Right. But then again, that software is probably not certified to work
> on CentOS. It's certified to run on RHEL. CentOS is not RHEL, even
> though it is based on its code and it is pretty close.
>
AIUI, wasn't the codebase just run through sed and all instances of
RHEL switched to CENTOS? :oP
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M.
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