FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 14:40 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: *FLAMEBAIT* CentOS - the new Debian! by dskoll
Parent article: Supporting CentOS

But the big advantage of Debian over CentOS is that the Debian developers are in charge of their own destiny, whereas CentOS (by design) is almost completely driven by decisions made by Red Hat.

If somebody wants a RedHat-compatible OS in order to run 3rd party binary-only software, this is not an advantage, but a disadvantage...

FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 14:49 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (4 responses)

If somebody wants a RedHat-compatible OS in order to run 3rd party binary-only software, this is not an advantage, but a disadvantage...

If someone is crazy or unlucky enough to have to run 3rd-party binary-only software, that person should shell out for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I don't believe most proprietary ISVs will give you the time of day if you're not running on an officially-approved platform.

FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 29, 2011 15:20 UTC (Tue) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link] (1 responses)

If someone is crazy or unlucky enough to have to run 3rd-party binary-only software, that person should shell out for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Since based on my experience, it [RHEL] is probably cheaper than the 3rd-party binary-only software anyway...

no good deed goes unpunished?

Posted Mar 29, 2011 16:28 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Yes, you want to help software vendors develop better habits so you end up with a more constructive industry. Reinforcing problem behaviors of the other vendor while punishing RHT for constructive behavior is not the way to get that.

FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 30, 2011 9:51 UTC (Wed) by theno23 (guest, #8859) [Link] (1 responses)

Just FYI, my company ships proprietary software as RPMs, that we support on CentOS and RHEL. The software is quite expensive, but most people still run it on CentOS - it needs quite a lot of hardware to run on, so running on RHEL is a signficant cost.

So I don't like like a complete capitalist pig, we also provide a lot of GPLv3 software.

FLAMEBAIT CentOS - the new Debian!

Posted Mar 31, 2011 10:49 UTC (Thu) by jpnp (guest, #63341) [Link]

Out of interest, is your software only supported on RHEL/CentOS or do you also package for/support Debian or any of its derivatives?