Ubuntu or Red-Hat for servers?

[Monte Milanuk]

On 08/25/2010 06:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:

>> And therein lies the difference...
>>
>> The people running the Fedora project seem at least reasonably friendly,
>> their site in general and forum in particular are useful and not broken.
>>    CentOS on the other hand... you don't *DARE* suggest that things could
>> use some improvement.  The people 'in charge' apparently don't have much
>> use for such things, and could care less what new users might think.
>
> Huh? If you are asking for bug/security fixes, they won't. The entire
> premise of CentOS is to be identical to RHEL save for trademarked material.
>

I'm talking about their website, and the forums.  The Search function on 
the forums has been broken for some time, and the layout of the forums 
is painful to say the least.  The moderators have little to no input; 
they say 'post on the developers list'.  There, you get attacked by the 
site admin (who never deigns to post or interact on the forum he's 
responsible for) for not having a complete working model set up on your 
own private server with a fully functioning patch (thats been tested 
under load) ready to hand to him, because he's too f'ing busy to bother 
with the site.  Thank you so much, if I was that much of a server guru I 
probably wouldn't need the forums then would I?  ;)

Oh, I forgot to mention... another time I got told to pack my $tuff and 
leave #centos because I dared to ask about running their distribution in 
Virtualbox.  Didn't matter what the question was, it wasn't their 
problem and they weren't going to listen to it because I wasn't running 
on real server hardware.

If I want reliable software that is at least a generation out of date, I 
guess I'll have to stick with Debian stable thank you very much. ;)