[Novalug] Scientific linux

bidwell bidwell@dead-city.org
Wed May 11 21:10:20 EDT 2011


On 05/11/2011 01:14 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>   Let's face it...Red Hat has always been a "boring" distribution.
> Simple, Easy to Understand. It Just Works.
>
> This is what you want to Run In Production.
>
> White Box (dead), CentOS (dying?) and SciLi (alive!) are basically RHEL
> Clones. Their claim to fame is that they are easy to migrate to and from
> RHEL itself.
>
> SciLi does add a bit more...don't forget AFS, which seems to be used a
> lot as a Wide Area NFS by a lot of Researchers with a lot of data. SciLi
> also has some Common WiFi drivers too.
>
> For the more Adventurous, you can always add Fedora's EPEL (Extra
> Packages for Enterprise Linux) RPM and get lots of stuff, including
> Nagios, Puppet, Rails, and most of the stuff that Fedora has.
>
> For me, SciLi is "CentOS, The Next Generation".
>
> JIM
In addition, most hardware manufacturers do provide updates that are
compatible with RHEL, and you can run those under clones, whereas
you cannot under Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora.  Some may even allow you to
claim that you're running RHEL if you have a hardware problem that
needs troubleshooting.

Matt



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