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CentOS must seem like a dream distribution to many. Its users get the benefit of the massive team of developers that Red Hat has working on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product without having to pay for any of it. CentOS offers a level of stability that cannot be found in any of the more community-oriented distributions; even Debian Stable requires its users to upgrade more often than CentOS does. Hosting providers have a solid, supported platform to sell to many thousands of customers, and it does not cost them even a single devalued US dollar. Many, many sites depend on CentOS, so anything which threatens the stability of that foundation is certain to raise a number of eyebrows. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened at the end of July.
I shifted from CentOS to Scientific Linux for two reasons:
1. SL has been consistently faster with security updates. What Mr. Corbet's article did not cover was the very long (2-3 month) delays that happened earlier this year. The numbers in his article are better and I hope CentOS is well on its way to resolving the issue.
2. SL is developed through the auspices of major research labs and universities. It is not a volunteer project. I think that makes it a bit easier for me to sell and gives business owners (and me) a bit more of a sense of security after what happened with CentOS in recent weeks.
Issue #1 is the more important of the two.
So far I am satisfied with SL. I certainly wish the CentOS people all the success in the world.
I also have great respect for Dag Wieers. Without his packaging efforts RHEL/CentOS/SL would require more work on my part :)
Absolutely. And a valid reason for switching in and of itself.
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1. SL has been consistently faster with security updates. What Mr. Corbet's article did not cover was the very long (2-3 month) delays that happened earlier this year. The numbers in his article are better and I hope CentOS is well on its way to resolving the issue.
2. SL is developed through the auspices of major research labs and universities. It is not a volunteer project. I think that makes it a bit easier for me to sell and gives business owners (and me) a bit more of a sense of security after what happened with CentOS in recent weeks.
Issue #1 is the more important of the two.
So far I am satisfied with SL. I certainly wish the CentOS people all the success in the world.
I also have great respect for Dag Wieers. Without his packaging efforts RHEL/CentOS/SL would require more work on my part :)