10 Jan
2011
10 Jan
'11
12:13 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.comwrote:
If you do not intend to pay Redhat, it is more convenient and desirable to use a community distribution like CentOS.
In my experience, Red hat as a distro has better hardware support for servers. For example, it came with optimized Kernels for IBM LS20 out of box (These blades had Clock Skew issue with 2 CPUs that needs few tweaks).
In my opinion, if someone is using standerd blade servers from IBM/HP/Dell, it makes sense to use Red Hat, other wise it does not bring much value to table and as you mentioned someone might use a community distro as well.
-Shamit