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It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
So I did a bit of digging and found out that CentOS ran on Hyper-V just fine. I installed it and had no real reason to complain since. The selection of packages is rather spartan compared to Debian, but there is a third-party repository called EPEL that makes up for that.
Some things are different from Debian, of course, but nothing big, and the system has given me no problems whatsoever on the performance and reliability fronts.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
We run one CentOS 6 server at work (which uses upstart, not systemd). The initial reason was that it needed to run on Hyper-V, and the Debian VM I had set up first, kept losing its network connection every couple of minutes, which was especially annoying since I wanted to run Nagios on that system. ;-) So I did a bit of digging and found out that CentOS ran on Hyper-V just fine. I installed it and had no real reason…
Security support for a wide range of packages is also a reason to prefer Debian over Ubuntu, since most of the Debian-inherited packages ("universe") are excluded in Ubuntu.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
As a general rule if the end customer was finance/bank their Linux flavor was RedHat (someone to yell at when it broke). Other tech companies / web types it was Ubuntu. This was my experience in over 4 startups where these were are end customers. Your mileage may vary.
I’m not trying to start a flame war here (honest), but among most “usual web” ops folks I know, the opposite of what you’re suggesting seems to hold and Debian/Ubuntu are looked at as an odd choice. It’s probably hire #1 going with what they know, more than anything, and it could very well be selection bias regarding the people I know. I’d love to see stats.
I’ve been working with CentOS or OEL in my own roles for several years now, and I’ve never chosen it. (Not saying I wouldn’t, just that it’s been there when I get there.)
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We run one CentOS 6 server at work (which uses upstart, not systemd). The initial reason was that it needed to run on Hyper-V, and the Debian VM I had set up first, kept losing its network connection every couple of minutes, which was especially annoying since I wanted to run Nagios on that system. ;-) So I did a bit of digging and found out that CentOS ran on Hyper-V just fine. I installed it and had no real reason…
EPEL doesn't get security updates. Security support for a wide range of packages is also a reason to prefer Debian over Ubuntu, since most of the Debian-inherited packages ("universe") are excluded in Ubuntu.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.
It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely). I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.