Mike Dwiggins wrote:
On 4/12/2013 7:03 AM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 13:24 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
I would agree that in a corporate environment, Fedora release cycle is
too often. I personnally run Fedora on my work laptop, but if I were
to administer the whole ~150 desktops of the company I wont use Fedora
but CentOS.
I tend to agree. However, if you're a place that's gotten used to
having to regularly wipe and install Windows boxes, as many will do,
then it's possible that having to restart with a newer version of Fedora
once or twice a year may be just as palatable. But I'd definitely put
servers on a long term OS, like CentOS, even if the clients use Fedora
and are considered disposable machines. Though it can be easier to
manage a system where they all run the same OS, so CentOS on them might
be simplest. And with a longer term OS, like CentOS instead of Fedora,
you're not going to suddenly face major annoying changes to how you use
your computer, like how KDE 4 and Gnome 3 irritated the masses.
If you're a place that has previously paid for Windows, then paying for
RHEL ought to be similarly palatable. Again, you could use it for one
or two machines, the one's your mostly likely to need technical support
from Red Hat for, and the other basic client machines using the free
CentOS. Though, if considering a paid OS, you have to consider whether
the type of service you're going to be able to get is useful to you.
Mention was made of having experienced security holes with Windows, so
the concept of keeping a system up-to-date ought to be already accepted.
Keeping on using *any* out-of-date system is a risk, some are easily
demonstratively so, others are harder to show that there is an actual
risk rather than just a theoretical one, but there's still a risk.
Excellent summation Tim! As I said my problem was not what I wanted but what I
could "Sell" to the Boss.
One outstanding suggestion that came up in this discussion was Scientific Linux
as the "Supported by CERN" could be a powerful selling point. That post had me
doing the classic head thump D'Oh! I had forgotten about that release!
Female involved in the decision chain has great respect and admiration for the
work of CERN and their web page shows no hint of their relation to CentOS! That
is a stable platform that I am certain I can get accepted. Boss taking a long
weekend so I have plenty of time to work up the presentation.
They don't have a connection to ContOS, they have a relationship to RHEL. Now
there is a good/bad thing there, SL has some install changes which make it easy
to maintain your own versions of packages, and not have your packages and the
standard step on one another. From a flexibility standpoint that's good, but the
install may be slightly different than RHEL. If you don't use the feature you
don't care.
Being able to say the CERN uses this to run their multi-$B hardware may make an
impression.
One last thought, I have moved many people to RHEL for desktop, people who want
to use it for mail, news, browsing, RSS, IRC. People who want to work with docs
and spreadsheets in MSFT formats. They just have no issues with what they use,
minimal learning curve, file format compatible, etc.
I have suggested using the seamonkey suite to most of them, some like having all
their interfaces the same, like reading tweets as RSS feeds like mail, etc.
About half have gone that way, they like it better than the Windows tools or
figuring out the browser of the day.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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