[PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

[Tim Wescott]

On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53 am, Dan Colish wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman
> <larry.brigman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael
>> Robinson<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>> > I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS
>> > sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go.
>> >

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> One of the nice advantages of CentOS piggy-backing on RHEL is that it is
> supported for what seems like forever. There is still a stable release of
> CentOS 3 with backports and updates. For these kind of distributions there
> should not be a 3 or 5 year cut off since the systems they are used to
> build
> will be running for much longer and need to be extremely stable. When you
> run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google
> uses... )

Google is large enough that using it's own distribution could make
economic sense -- since it's not distributing it 'out of house' I suspect
that it could even keep it's own changes private, if it wanted to.

But that's just supposition -- I'd like to know too.

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