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    CentOS vs Scientific vs Oracle

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Jobine, Dec 23, 2013.

  1. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Battle of the RHEL clones! Help me pick!
     
    Jobine, Dec 23, 2013
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    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    My vote went to CentOS only because I'm using it myself...and happen to like it. Pretty smooth even on older hardware.

    What exactly do you need to get out of the distro that wins the election?
     
    ajkula66, Dec 23, 2013
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  3. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Rock-Solid workstation for my production setup once it's fully configured, and i will be using like 10 external repos + custom (mainline) kernel. I'll be installing in on newer hardware (Haswell) though i need a distro that can support GNOME 2 for as long as 2017 and RHEL is the only choice.

    RHEL is one of the few distros i trust in a production setup, due to it's extended Windows-like support. Other distros i have tried are Ubuntu LTS (hate their philosophy), Debian (don't get me started) and Slackware (bad package management).

    Oracle/SL/Cent all seem to be the same thing, but if there is anything different between each let me know.
     
    Jobine, Dec 24, 2013
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    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    I don't see a problem there.
    You and many others that are higher in the food chain than either of us...
    If I get the time to play with the other two, I most certainly will.
     
    ajkula66, Dec 24, 2013
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    sudoray Newbie

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    CentOS has a great community. That's what they're all about. I came from a Debian background and since moving to CentOS have not looked back.
     
    sudoray, Dec 27, 2013
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    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Lol Debian is pretty terribad, i've been to their forums a few times. Most of them are RMS worhshippers on 8 year old Thinkpads. Though code-wise it's a great distro.
     
    Jobine, Dec 27, 2013
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