by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:02PM (#61035094)
Maintenance, support, and more of an industry standard
For a home user it really doesnt matter what you use, use whatever distro you like. In a corporate environment though with thousands of servers all needing to stay in sync, and requiring specific drivers and support from hardware vendors, having one standard that is known to be a solid (if not old) base that is also based on redhat, makes that much easier. Also having specific targets of specific releases with known package availability makes working on large distributed OSS projects that also run on these servers much easier as everyone working on them has something to target
Also, if you needed industry grade support, you could just switch to RHEL quite painlessly and pay for support, or use RHEL for production servers and CentOS for your development or cluster servers with completely compatible, often even binary checksum identical components.
Also, if you needed industry grade support, you could just switch to RHEL quite painlessly and pay for support, or use RHEL for production servers and CentOS for your development or cluster servers with completely compatible, often even binary checksum identical components.
Ah, the good old days....
Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.
Why is CentOS so popular? (Score:0)
Just use Slackware
Re:Why is CentOS so popular? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maintenance, support, and more of an industry standard
For a home user it really doesnt matter what you use, use whatever distro you like. In a corporate environment though with thousands of servers all needing to stay in sync, and requiring specific drivers and support from hardware vendors, having one standard that is known to be a solid (if not old) base that is also based on redhat, makes that much easier. Also having specific targets of specific releases with known package availability makes working on large distributed OSS projects that also run on these servers much easier as everyone working on them has something to target
Re: (Score:3)
Also, if you needed industry grade support, you could just switch to RHEL quite painlessly and pay for support, or use RHEL for production servers and CentOS for your development or cluster servers with completely compatible, often even binary checksum identical components.
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Also, if you needed industry grade support, you could just switch to RHEL quite painlessly and pay for support, or use RHEL for production servers and CentOS for your development or cluster servers with completely compatible, often even binary checksum identical components.
Ah, the good old days....