Re: [Xen-users] Cluster (VPC), Eucalyptus and preferred distribution to it.

[Luke S Crawford <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Some of the reasons: CentOS is just plain stupid, rpm and yum are plain
> buggy, upgrades are a real pain, yum is so slow and memory eating,

rpm is, yes, suboptimal. 

the advantage of CentOS is twofold.   

1. you can get a lot of money SysAdmining RHEL boxes for big dumb companies
that feel they need to pay for things.    the other side of that coin is
that there are a lot of SysAdmins familiar with the RedHat way of doing 
things.  

2. RHEL actually does a pretty good job testing things, and keeping things
stable and compatable within a release.   You are pretty safe running 
'yum update'  and rebooting.   With many other distros, well, often an
upgrade actually changes things.


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