Ubuntu or Red-Hat for servers?

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:20 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> 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?  ;)

Never used the forums so I know nothing about it.


>
> 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.

Really? I can understand when it's some bastardized version of Centos 
but they harangued for installing CentOS on Virtualbox? Did you get 
Centos on Virtualbox or not?


>
> If I want reliable software that is at least a generation out of date, I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. ;)
>
>
>

/me shrugs. d-i can't match anaconda at the moment. Likewise apt don't 
do multi-arch too.