[Lustre-discuss] Centos 5 with Lustre

[Balagopal Pillai]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, John Hearns wrote:

> 
> First hit on a Google search for "SLES RPMS"
> http://opsamericas.com/?p=497
> 
> SLED 10 x86_64 architecture source RPMs here
> http://forgeftp.novell.com/sledsource/SLED-10-SP1-x86_64-srpms/
> 

Very nice! I didn't know that novell released the srpms for enterprise 
linux for free. How about the updates srpms? It is not viable for an
equivalent distribution of centos to exist in the suse world without
a timely release of updates srpms too. Normally when redhat releases
the security or other updates with public srpms, it appears on the 
centos mirrors soon after that. Essentially centos user base are all
potential redhat customers when they would want to run something 
in a vendor certified and supported environment like a business critical 
oracle box for example. Most of these current centos users like myself 
are ones who would have gone with another stable and free distribution 
like debian if there was no centos and who can't afford big linux support 
fees at the moment (or don't need that much support from the vendor). On 
the other hand, with the very good experience with centos over the years, 
if i have to choose between RHEL and suse in future with offical support 
contracts, i would most likely choose rhel. So its not all that bad a deal
for redhat either, eventhough some of the centos users might be able to 
afford rhel.

Balagopal