> On Dec 8, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:52, Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>
>> It’s pretty common that if something supports only one distribution, it’s
>> RedHat-based. That’s also true of hardware vendors.
>
> True, officially, but often not officially. Again, back around 2008 I found
> it hilariously irritating. HP supported a lot of Debian activity in the
> background, and hosted quite a lot of the infrastructure. Officially, they
> only supported Red Hat, but I discovered on a visit to Colorado Springs that
> they actually developed all their drivers using Debian, and then ported them
> to Red Hat!
>
> A year or two later, I remember noticing that the firmware update ISOs that
> HP distributed were also Debian-based. Even though they only distributed Red
> Hat RPMs on them. Duh!
>
> Tim
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I should have been clearer too: this goes beyond just what they say they will
support, or what sorts of commands they’ll ask you to run to prove a hardware
problem, etc., but to your point, frequently stuff will be distributed only in
RPM, or only yum repositories will be provided, or whatever else I might not be
thinking of. And sure, I can work around that, etc., until one comes along
that’s a huge pain in the neck for some reason, or it’s based on a different
set of libraries, that don’t work well on the other distro, etc. There’s just a
limit to how much time I want to spend on stuff like that, especially if we’re
talking about stuff that really isn’t the focus of your business, like firmware
or something. On my own equipment, I run either Debian or Ubuntu, and we do
some Debian/Ubuntu in Singularity containers for the relatively few cases where
they are supported and RHEL/CentOS are not.
That said, if CentOS truly goes away, isn’t seamlessly replaced, a lot of that
could change.
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