[clue] CentOS new user experience.

[Mark G. Harvey]

Having spent a 3 month contract at a Fed Gov't contractor who used RHEL & had a support contract, with Satellite, I can tell you that support was less than stellar.  
We must have had 20+ support cases open with RH about Satellite alone.  It appears in the latest incarnation of Satellite 6.x, RH "re-engineered" it by cobbling together Foreman & other open source projects.  Certainly not ready for prime time.  More like a 1.0 product release.  
We were trying to connect RHEL 6.x machine accounts to AD & the customer wouldn't pay for any RH or 3rd party tool.  RH suggested FreeIPA.  Having experience with LDAP, I found it to be half baked at best.   
Any tool RH has that is worth a damn ain't free.  But this is probably typical of most software vendors. 

Got to agree with Dave, that most of the time, we had to search for & implement workarounds ... which of course ate up valuable time & man hours.  

In the developer world, it looks like Ubuntu is king.  Not sure why, but maybe its the support?  

 

    On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:20 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
 

 CentOS isn't the only CentOS.

Scientific and Rocks are my favorite RHEL derivatives, other than CentOS. Oracle Linux is, without doubt, my least favorite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives

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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
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