Hi Aaron:
Thanks for the response...
> I am using CentOs for several servers. Compatibility? It would depend on
> what service your talking about running. If you want to use GFS and the
> Cluster suite all that works.. I am getting ready to set up 7 terabytes
> using CentOs with GFS. I have already set up 1 terabyte on Centos with
> EXT3 using Samba for sharing across network. I would say most general
> services are good, meaning already compiled in a repo or media. They
> also by default have yum and up2date setup with centos servers. What
> service are you going to run on it?
I'm trying to run some Oracle client libraries, drivers for an IBM shark storage
array, and some custom builds of Apache/PHP. For various reasons (mostly political,
some legal), we need to have a vendor-supported distro on the production machine.
The dev box must have completely compatible versions of software especially for
drivers.
> CentOs is pretty solid. The Tao Linux distro (another rhel) shutdown and
> is converting there packages over to CentOs along with some developers.
> Good for CentOs. I have been following them for over a year now and they
> have a good team. I would highly recommend trying them out.
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