Hi,

as you see from previous post, i’m working installing some servers, and even i have some experience doing server administration, i’m learning a lot in this few days.

i’m using linux every day for the past 4 years, and i’m really happy. i need to say that i always used distribution linked in some way with debian, as ubuntu, kubuntu, linux mint etc.

in terms of servers, i always used centos, fedora or red hat, why’s that? why they was already installed, was the only option available or if i can choose, why other more experienced devs told me that was the standard in the web industry. i always made some server administration but now that i’m really touching deep on it i’d say that i will never use a centos or red hat derivated OS again, and i will fundament this with facts and experiences from the few days.

the most biggest flaws i see on distribution as centos, is the package system, yum. i think is far to be enough capable as apt is for debian. why i say that? the search of the package is not complete as apt is, the erase of packages could bring serious problem if you don’t pay a lot of attention, i even erased yum itself erasing secondary packages O_O.

the other big problem are the repositories, and maybe this problem is only specifically for centos, but really lack of a lot essential packages, where you need to depend from third party repositories or compiling yourself. didn’t even enabling the centos plus and extra repositories you are able to get something up to date (and i’m talking about stable version released a long time ago)

if some server admin read this is surely thinking “this is a noob” and maybe is right, but measure the utility of something from the things i can get from it and in the time it takes me to do it and i assure you that all the stuff i made on centos i could made it in the half of the time for the availability of compiled packages in the repositories and the utility of apt. i know that the beautiful of linux is if you don’t find something for your OS, you can compile it with the source, but seriously, is not nice when you are working, waste hours debugging for dependencies and stuff when can be solved with a simple apt-get.

so, from me, i say bye bye centos, for now i will only use debian whenever i can, and i regret the decision to use you in this new servers.

Regards,

Shadow.