• @PurpleGreen
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    21 year ago

    Why rhel/cent os is such a big deal? Cant ppl just use Debian / Ubuntu / alpine?

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      RHEL gets enterprise support from RedHat / IBM.

      Point is, if you work for some big corp, when you buy something, you want proper warranties meaning people to blame if it breaks down. I have seen corps want to pay for stuff available free just so they can point at someone if there’s a problem. Ubuntu is mostly fine, Canonical does offer support, but “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        The enterprise support also means security updates, which is a huge requirement for government contract work (not just US, anything military really). I’ve also seen requirements for use of DISA approved products. I think at the time RHEL and maybe SUSE were the only ones on the list - I’m a few years removed from having to care about this.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Switching is not always trivial.

      I have a huge build that only works on EL7. It will take months of focused effort to unfuck that build code.

    • @PurpleGreen
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      31 year ago

      Thanks for the answers I learnt something new :)

    • @stuner
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      21 year ago

      Professional applications (e.g. CAD,…) generally don’t support many distributions. In my field, RHEL and SLES are widely supported and a few tools also support Ubuntu.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      We’ve got over two hundred Rocky/Centos vms. all of them ‘pets’ that would require manual migration of lots of very different services, many of them bespoke. That’s quite a lot of work.