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CentOS 5 Released
jonesy16 writes "Only a few weeks behind the release of Red Hat Enterprise 5, CentOS announced today the immediate release of version 5 of the free derivative of RHEL 5. Torrents are available for both i386 and x86_64. New features include compiz and AIGLX support as well as better virtualization and thin-client support. Package updates include Apache-2.2, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, and KDE-3.5."
I know you're trolling but in my last job we had CentOS running on 30+ servers (the rest were Win2k3 servers). I find CentOS to be stable, easy to maintain and navigate around, and most importantly reliable with regular and prompt updates.
The only use I see for something like CentOS is for a dev or UAT environment, when you're running the same RHEL version in production. This gives you two (three) essentially identical environments, but you've only gotta pay the man for one copy.
You're doing it wrong.
I know you are trolling but yes. CentOS is great for Development were your System Admins' take care of everything and if you move the machine to production you can get a CentOS or Redhat maintenance contract.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Yes, used on hundreds of servers at a University in the UK with no issues. Stuff that has commercial support goes on RHEL; but the rest goes on CentOS to maintain an identical environment to administer.
Actually there were zero-day exploits for X.org just last week. RHEL updated their packages and CentOS followed suit a few days later.
Better safe than sorry, just like running IIS as an external web server, you can do it but the risk isn't worth the reward and you can do nearly anything via an ssh session anyway.