CentOS anyone?

[ps2chiper]

I've been using ubuntu for over a year and never tried anything else. I have read that CentOS is really fast for servers. I was wondering if anyone had any personal experience with CentOS?

[caveman_nige]

never heard of it to be honest, when i need to put linux on a server i tend to use Suse... Is it a gui server version?

[alunfennell]

I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux server 5 and have introduced it my work recently I have found this to be a very fine OS, Never had hands on experience with CentOS but I believe CentOS 3.3 is a good Red Hat server alternative, It would be down to the support you get for each OS which would derterman the one you might use.


Regards:
Alun

[cimi1234]

I run my email server for years on CentOs and it is very stable.

[Devilfish]

I think CentOS is more for servers rather than workstations. The Digital Kaos server runs on CentOS 5.2.

I've read that Debian is the easiest to work with but I found Ubuntu very user friendly.

[ps2chiper]

Thats exactly what I want it for. Back in America they Have 20mb fiber optics for servers for about 250 usd a month. When I go back home. I would like to invest into my own private server instead of using others. So I wanted to get personal advice about cent os as I hear it is really good for servers.

[belfast]

I've used ubuntu as a desktop and debian as a server distro for years. I'd say debian although easier to use because of their superior apt repos lack support from many of the hardware manufacturers such as dell and ibm. For years dell perc raid controllers worked well under RedHat based system yet caused problems under debian. Dell and IBM also released server management only on redhat and not on debian, getting these to work on debian is a ball ache.

CentOS is a community-supported, distro based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution (RedHat).

it's horses for courses really ubuntu has better driver support and more multimedia applications for desktops. Redhat and CentOS might be a bit harder to master but if you want to run servers in the future they are probably the best bet.

It's also worth remembering there are no recognized professional qualifications for debian but there is a plethora for RedHat.

[haggis_supper]

I've been a linux guy since 1997, I've even have code in the kernel.

Over the last couple of years I've been using Centos.
1. It is a recompile of Redhat and keeps pretty much in sync
2. VERY stable, don't think i've had an issue yet

I'm running a 33 node computation cluster with it along with various 64-bit servers at work.
I also run it on a dual core atom at home along with other systems.

I would say this is really an O.S. for servers. If you want to run a nice desktop environment go for UBUNTU or one of the free distributions you get with magazines.

[madman_lxl]

CentOS is great for DEV but i've always perferred the saftey of having a company backing the product thats why home and DEV i use CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu but i always use RHEL in Production. i mean for $700 a SL for a box (in most cases) its a good investment. OH and hardware Manufactors offically support it.

[prestomadcat]

I use CentOS for both my servers, once you get used to it, it's brill nix distro very fast and reliable, i used to use Fedora for the servers but once i put CentOS on, server load increased tenfold . i have recently installed cPanel on one of the servers but i'm currently writing my own control panel, once its finished i'll make it open source

[hackhain]

cPanel/WHM is proprietary software and licence costs start from $425 per year. Hosting companies have got bulk deduction in that price. In the other hand, you may look GPL ones.

[cpjackso]

CentOS works really well, but as everyone else has said - it's really a server OS rather than desktop.

[noserwis]

Grate version for home server. I use it for 2 years

[ihoti2001]

I've been using ubuntu for over a year and never tried anything else. I have read that CentOS is really fast for servers. I was wondering if anyone had any personal experience with CentOS?

CentOS is the OS of choice for almost every WebHosting compaby out there these days. You might have seen cPanel (if you every had and webhosting account for you website or your clients) and almost all of them run on CentOS. It is free and it comes with GUI. Ubuntu Server 10 LTS has just come out, but no GUI, you would have to do a "sodu apt-get install Webmin" to have a GUI of sorts for managing the server (Webmin has been around for many years and its an excellent tool). Then you can log on to the Webmin gui form any other machine on the same Network by the said server ip address:#### and whatever the open port number is. You need to do a bit of reading but not much. Highly recommended. I hope this has helped.

Ilir(long live Linux)

[charliebrown]

CentOS is the OS of choice for almost every WebHosting compaby out there these days. You might have seen cPanel (if you every had and webhosting account for you website or your clients) and almost all of them run on CentOS. It is free and it comes with GUI. Ubuntu Server 10 LTS has just come out, but no GUI, you would have to do a "sodu apt-get install Webmin" to have a GUI of sorts for managing the server (Webmin has been around for many years and its an excellent tool). Then you can log on to the Webmin gui form any other machine on the same Network by the said server ip address:#### and whatever the open port number is. You need to do a bit of reading but not much. Highly recommended. I hope this has helped.

Ilir(long live Linux)

Perhaps, I wouldn't recommend Centos for home users because like the distro its based on RHEL, updates dont make it out as quick as other "desktop" distro's