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New sloganNew sloganPosted Apr 21, 2010 15:53 UTC (Wed) by danieldk (guest, #27876)In reply to: New slogan by djf_jeff Parent article: RHEL 6 beta version available
Well, that assumes that there is the opportunity to choose. Our university has a standard Windows and UNIX workplace, and that's what you get. I am not complaining, because it is actually useful to have the same environment everywhere, and a recent Ubuntu version is used for the workplace (and Debian on servers). Fortunately they have banned old (but supported) Red Hat and SUSE versions.
However some computing resources with a lot of cycles use old RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux versions, e.g. one particular cluster has just migrated from RHEL4 to RHEL5 (which is not really stellar). Compiling our codebase there is always a drag, where you have to bring things four or five years back in time.
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New slogan Posted Apr 21, 2010 16:52 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]
Funny... OUR university group has standardized on RHEL, almost solely because of its aggressive approach to security updates.
As an old(er) Unix maven said to me, some twenty years ago, "Once you've secured your network against the Bad Guys on the outside, you can begin to defend it against those on the *inside*."
Some things haven't changed. The bulk of those probing and banging on our systems are this university's own students.
Yup, we run RHEL/5.5, and we're quite happy when RedHat pushes out yet-another security update.
Of course, YMMV.
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