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A Perfect Illustration of Why I Now Choose Scientific Linux Over CentOS

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Ever Increasing Entropy; By Caitlyn Martin 		Mail this story
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The following comment was posted in response to my business oriented article about the CentOS situation for O'Reilly Broadcast. It perfectly illustrates why I have made the decision I did: Peter Griffin wrote: "I've been running CentOS as a file/intranet server since 5.0 was released. I started becoming concerned during the protracted period that it took to get 5.3 out. Not about the "lateness" in getting 5.3 out, but the complete lack of security updates in the interim for my 5.2 system. This "No updates available" went on for over a month. My version of Firefox trailed behind Red Hat's by two versions."

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Comments (4)

kenholmz ·
I have been reading the posts and responses regarding CentOS with interest. Thought provoking and informative information and thoughts. I am surprised that no one has mentioned Startcom Linux. This is purely curiosity on my part.
kenholmz ·
"informative information..." sheesh!
caitlyn Story submitter ·
My understanding is that StartCom is based on a mix of Fedora and Red Hat and is not a RHEL clone. At least that is the way their website portrays the distro. Look, I'm Israeli-American and I would love to be able to tout some first class Israeli technology but... I was looking for something that truly is a drop-in, 100% compatible replacement for RHEL. StartCom doesn't fit the bill AFAIK.
kenholmz ·
Thanks, Caitlyn. The Startcom home page definitely says it is based on Red Hat and Fedora code. Your reasoning makes perfect sense.

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