Ubuntu or Red-Hat for servers?

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:39 AM, M. Milanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 09:45 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Oh, sure.  It installs just fine, given the generic set of hardware that
> Virtualbox presents to it.  The question at the time (near as I
> remember, been a while) was more related towards setting up a CentOS
> install as a firewall/gateway between an internal (virtual) network and
> the external net (my LAN).  If I hadn't mentioned it was on Virtualbox,
> it probably never would have been an issue.  Later I realized they (the
> CentOS crew) seem to have a sore spot about virtualization as they must
> get a lot of people who get virtual host accounts that nominally have
> CentOS installed but that have been tweaked in someway... so they
> apparently write off any and all such situations as 'not their problem'.
> I'm sure the group as a whole are not complete a-holes... but man, I
> sure managed to run across a couple who made up for the rest.

As Christopher Chan has posted, the CentOS "crew" have a justified
sore spot about hosting providers who claim to be offering their
clients CentOS virtual servers when they have modified the installs to
such an extent that they can no longer be considered CentOS ones.

I find the CentOS list members to be very helpful and very
knowledgeable, even when it comes to virtualization. They are also
strict about what is posted; they would certainly not tolerate
some/many of the threads that we have here.

I could see the CentOS "crew" be upset if you posted a question where
you hadn't said upfront that you were using VBox or a question about a
non-trivial VBox setup (like a bridge) where VBox is running on a
non-CentOS box because it would necessitate configuration changes in
the non-CentOS host OS.

I searched the CentOS archives for your VBox problem and found one
thread where you were testing a CentOS dhcp server with Debian,
Fedora, and Ubuntu clients. You were given a server-side configuration
for your problem and it worked for Debian and Ubuntu but not for
Fedora. You then bitched about Fedora's NM.

So unless you were posting under a different name or Google's indexing
is incomplete, you must be mis-remembering the list or forum where you
were told to look elsewhere.