That matches Scientific Linux in terms of full time paid packagers/QA &c
I'm not sure how much paid development time PUIAS has but there is some as it is the system used at the host institutions.
I imagine that the Oracle Linux team has plenty of extra people providing the paid support.
What I find interesting is that you can't simply download an .iso, you have to create an account or run a dodgy script. Strange combination of free and corporate approaches.
An excellent question. Honestly, because the page was intended at people already running CentOS -- I thought people would be much more inclined to switch a system they already have than to reinstall a brand new one. Clearly I was mistaken :)
Would you expect those who tend servers to run a script that changes the update repositories and installs new packages as root on a production server without testing the operating system first?
I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the target market for your product. Just a desktop RHEL clone user.
> I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS.
Yes, that was my thinking here. That you'd spin up a CentOS VM or run it on a test system, see if you were happy, and then you'd run it for a while. Once you were happy, you'd then run the script everywhere.
http://centosnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/centos-project-relea...
That matches Scientific Linux in terms of full time paid packagers/QA &c
I'm not sure how much paid development time PUIAS has but there is some as it is the system used at the host institutions.
I imagine that the Oracle Linux team has plenty of extra people providing the paid support.
What I find interesting is that you can't simply download an .iso, you have to create an account or run a dodgy script. Strange combination of free and corporate approaches.