On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:56 +0300, Balint Cristian wrote:
> You should consider using CentOS. [1]
> It's 99.9% compatible with RHEL.
1) How about stuff in .specs:
if %{dist?} == rhl5 , rhl4 ?!
Spaces are the same.
2) How about updates, RHEL have a really
fancy update schema.
CentOS needs ~2-3 days to rebuild and push RHEL updates.
(CentOS 5.2 should be out in two weeks)
3) And most important how about further
reporting bugs to bugzilla (e.g now i have an
issue with expat in rhel5 i am lazy to report that
it missbehave from one update to another,
i even cannot properly test it on my fedora desk,
i doubt that CentOS is so in sync with RHEL.
Issues w/ CentOS should be reported to CentOS.
Issues w/ EPEL should be reported to redhat.
And my list can continue ....
In my opinion its not the same, in fact if i will get
bug report i am not quite sure in some circumstances
i will be able reproduce it on CentOS, it even sounds
strange if i Re: to that bz# that "on my CentOS it works
and compile fine" ...
Let me put this way, we (as in my team) develop on CentOS and deploy on
RHEL. (Mostly because CentOS is a far better desktop OS compared to RHEL
Server)
Thus far, we've only encountered a single CentOS specific bug.
Well than i can renounce and be happy with Fedora.
I thinked to buy one, but since i am happy with fedora
just for this task i would like to spend money, i will end
up working on something wich i am not paid at all and
on top of top issues i pay for anual subscriptions :D
Best Regards,
Cristian.
- Gilboa