On Monday, October 31, 2011 07:46:59 AM William Warren wrote:
> Like I said before It it too
> bad RH is doing what they are doing. It is going to mean the death of
> RHEL rebuilds...look at what is happening to Centos. Per Johnny's
> statement they can't truly maintain 100% binary compatibility. It is
> not the Centos team's fault although they are going to be the biggest
> casualty.
If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific Linux is covering that niche, and has their 6.1 out.
And that's not a criticism of CentOS, either, as the binary compatibility testing CentOS is doing has its purposes. Again, glad there is CR out there.
The rebuilding per se isn't the issue; testing against the upstream binaries for compatibility without running afoul of the upstream AUP seems to be the problem.
I have a couple of servers on Ubuntu LTS; after experiencing a few issues I'd say go Debian stable rather than Ubuntu LTS, from experience, if you're going to go that route.
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