CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 6, 2009 9:29 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs by vonbrand
Parent article: CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

FWIW, I run Fedora on a server and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't need the OS to be 'certified' for Oracle or SAP or other expensive proprietary software. Every six months it takes about a day of my time to upgrade it, mostly spent in testing and in rebuilding any locally modified packages. If I had more than one server to maintain then of course I would need to spend some effort to automate and centralize the administration.

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CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 7, 2009 1:28 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (4 responses)

We used to have Fedora on servers too, but the update timing became all wrong for us (smack in the most busy time in the term), so...

CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 8, 2009 11:41 UTC (Sat) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link] (3 responses)

Even the Fedora project in the FC3 era understood that running their own infrastructure on Fedora was taking more resources than they could spend. That's when they moved to CentOS for their infrastructure instead.

Lots of Fedora developers also admit using CentOS for everything where they need stability or simply don't want to update every X months. There is no controversy anymore. It's the same codebase with a different deployment target (for the same audience).

Within companies you can also see companies mix CentOS and RHEL, depending on the support needs they have for different systems. Business or mission-critical solutions running on RHEL, and testing or development systems running on CentOS.

CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 8, 2009 20:30 UTC (Sat) by nirik (subscriber, #71) [Link] (2 responses)

I could be wrong, but I don't think Fedora infrastructure uses CentOS anywhere, they use
mostly RHEL and a few Fedora machines that need to be fedora for composes, etc.

CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 9, 2009 15:13 UTC (Sun) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link] (1 responses)

It doesn't matter, my point is still valid.

I said they moved from Fedora to CentOS in the FC3 era. It's possible they moved to RHEL. The point is that the Fedora project is not using Fedora for their servers. Whether it is CentOS or RHEL now is not relevant.

CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Posted Aug 9, 2009 20:01 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Actually, Fedora Project was just using external infrastructure which happened to be running something else at that point but yes, Fedora doesn't claim to be for everyone either.