A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to disrecommend Ubuntu on servers at work because the
> desktop dist-upgrade just isn't up to scratch IME, and that just
> doesn't bode well enough for servers. (Instead we're using
> RHEL/CentOS, which doesn't do the equivalent well at all, but *does*
> have seven years of maintenance. If we were going to do it, I'd
> probably go Debian plus hand-installed binaries. But RHEL/CentOS is
> easier on this score.)

I think you might be mistaken. There is not 7 years of support for
CentOS. There is no official support for CentOS at all as a matter of
fact. You'd get a longer support commitment from a even a non-LTS
distribution of Ubuntu.

RHEL does have a nice support life cycle as do the Ubuntu LTS versions.

I frequently see this mis-perception that because someone has
recompiled the source RPMs from Red Hat and repackaged them in a
similar manner that CentOS == RHEL. If you want RHEL and it's support
commitment you have to get your check book out and send a check to
North Carolina.

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=5

This is not to be perceived as saying anything either for or against
CentOS. Just don't be mistaken into thinking it comes with some kind
of support.

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