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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
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On 2013-01-04, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>
> Red Hat seems to be prefered at my work (NASA), and it is the Linux OS
> officially supported by AdaCore. Red Hat provides constant updates on
> the machines I use; I'm not clear if they have a "security only" policy.
>

If you want RHEL, but are happy with a self-support approach, there is
always CentOS or Scientific Linux, which are RHEL rebuilds.

I use Scientific Linux to run some secondary servers at work as well as
in client roles both at home and work. (Still at SL 5.x however, so I
don't have any experience of the latest SL 6.x series yet).

I choose SL a number of years ago because I preferred the more formal
support system in place for it when compared to CentOS. SL also supplied
updates for a wider range of versions than CentOS did at the time (but
I don't know if that's still true or not).

Simon.

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