| Author |
Message |
dmwilliams
Joined: 18 Sep 2010
Posts: 24
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:41 am Post subject: RedHat Linux |
|
|
I was just wondering how much interest there would be in Linode supporting RedHat Linux. (Ubuntu just crashed out on me during the update and its not booting)
How much more would it cost?
and if somebody from linode swings by, has Linode ever considered RedHat?
Is Fedora just as good? |
|
| Back to top |
|
czotos
Joined: 23 Apr 2009
Posts: 14
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
You can use CentOS...
CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system, stability without the cost of certification and support. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Guspaz
Joined: 26 May 2009
Posts: 1150
Location: Montreal, QC
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
czotos wrote: You can use CentOS...
CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system, stability without the cost of certification and support.
Caution: CentOS releases can lag the better part of a year behind RedHat Enterprise Linux releases. But yes, it's otherwise effectively identical. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Piki
Joined: 16 Jun 2011
Posts: 276
Location: Cyberspace
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
| In my personal experience (I can't speak for anyone else), CentOS works much better than Fedora. Debian is another viable option, it might not be enterprise-class but for me personally, it works great on servers. I can't really speak to the others except to say that when I tried them (a year ago for some, much longer for others), they didn't work very well on my computers, but the versions I tried are severely outdated by now, so they may have improved. |
|
| Back to top |
|
obs
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 1403
Location: Earth
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:47 am Post subject: |
|
|
You could roll your own distro and install red hat, of course you need to get a licence.
See http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/custom-distro-howto |
|
| Back to top |
|
dmwilliams
Joined: 18 Sep 2010
Posts: 24
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
obs wrote: You could roll your own distro and install red hat, of course you need to get a licence.
See http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/custom-distro-howto
lol yea.. I'm sure If I rolled my on distro it would be SUPER stable :roll:
my decision was red hat business class shared hosting for websites... ahh what a relief!
now I can play with linodes,install crazy software on linodes, transfer linodes, and best of all restart linodes :D
I'll use linodes for My VPN and webdav server, and stuff like that! |
|
| Back to top |
|
tolle
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 5
Location: Umeå, Sweden
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:05 am Post subject: |
|
|
Guspaz wrote: czotos wrote: You can use CentOS...
CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system, stability without the cost of certification and support.
Caution: CentOS releases can lag the better part of a year behind RedHat Enterprise Linux releases. But yes, it's otherwise effectively identical.
Scientific Linux is the same thing. Just faster updates then CentOS and what seems like friendlier developers. Also, it has proper funding. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Piki
Joined: 16 Jun 2011
Posts: 276
Location: Cyberspace
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
dmwilliams wrote: See http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/custom-distro-howto
lol yea.. I'm sure If I rolled my on distro it would be SUPER stable :roll:[/quote]
You don't need LFS to roll your own difference, that's what Gentoo and Sabayon and the likes are for ;-) |
|
| Back to top |
|
Azathoth
Joined: 07 Dec 2009
Posts: 263
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm pretty sure obs meant you could roll your own distro as in install any distro of choice that's not provided by Linode, ie. create and upload the image.
Make a snapshot backup (and make one after each update), and from that point it's as if Linode provided it (except you don't get support on it from Linode, as in they can't change the image for you if you do something wrong).
So if you "roll your own" image of RedHat, it is THE RedHat, as stable as it gets. |
|
| Back to top |
|
obs
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 1403
Location: Earth
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Yep that's what I meant..hence the link to installing a custom distro 8) |
|
| Back to top |
|
ShadowNetworks
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
Posts: 3
|
| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I was looking at an academic license for RHEL Server, but honestly would rather just jump on the Fedora boat. I found that all the packages I'm looking at installing are in the Fedora repos whereas I'd have to compile several from scratch if I went RHEL or CentOS (even v6). Perhaps over time this will be a supportable build since I believe there would be interest (especially since Linode seems to be Linux n00b friendly). I'd vote for RHEL support if it's theoretically possible in the future, I may even go as far as rolling a RHEL box if it happened. :) |
|
| Back to top |
|
Azathoth
Joined: 07 Dec 2009
Posts: 263
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
ShadowNetworks wrote: I was looking at an academic license for RHEL Server, but honestly would rather just jump on the Fedora boat. I found that all the packages I'm looking at installing are in the Fedora repos whereas I'd have to compile several from scratch if I went RHEL or CentOS (even v6). Perhaps over time this will be a supportable build since I believe there would be interest (especially since Linode seems to be Linux n00b friendly). I'd vote for RHEL support if it's theoretically possible in the future, I may even go as far as rolling a RHEL box if it happened. :)
So you're looking at a stable, commercially supported distro, then thinking about jumping on its "unofficial prealpha-alpha-beta" boat? :mrgreen:
If the packages you need are in EPEL, you can still use CentOS. |
|
| Back to top |
|
ShadowNetworks
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
Posts: 3
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Azathoth wrote: So you're looking at a stable, commercially supported distro, then thinking about jumping on its "unofficial prealpha-alpha-beta" boat? :mrgreen:
If the packages you need are in EPEL, you can still use CentOS.
:) Nice to know what's coming down the pipe. I've also never run into problems with FC (*fingers crossed*). But to answer your EPEL remark, one of the three apps I'm using isn't in there, but I've found it's been thrown into another repo, which would work. May give CentOS a shot now that 6 is out. |
|
| Back to top |
|
jebblue
Joined: 23 May 2010
Posts: 112
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: RedHat Linux |
|
|
dmwilliams wrote: I was just wondering how much interest there would be in Linode supporting RedHat Linux. (Ubuntu just crashed out on me during the update and its not booting)
Is Fedora just as good?
You could do some troubleshooting and figure out why it crashed it. I've never seen this happen. Also no there is no better distribution than Ubuntu IMO. |
|
| Back to top |
|
vonskippy
Joined: 27 Dec 2009
Posts: 469
Location: Colorado, USA
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:42 am Post subject: Re: RedHat Linux |
|
|
jebblue wrote: Also no there is no better distribution than Ubuntu IMO.
Hahahahahaha - good one. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| |
