Sometimes, vendors provide packages or ISOs to install on Red Hat and while there might be a way to coax them to install on Debian or Ubuntu, the vendor will only support the software if it is installed on RedHat or CentOS. Such is the case with Avid iNews, the widely-used newsroom software that drives television news operations. When Avid moved iNews years ago from SCO Unix to Linux, they chose RedHat and they also support CentOS (or did). FYI - three of the four TV stations in Nashville use iNews to craft their on-air newscasts (scripts, incoming network news feeds and connections to teleprompters and character generators). This is but one example of a piece of software that those of us who work in TV use RedHat for, even when it's not our favorite or preferred OS when we have the choice. Support contracts and stability matter in business and as someone who gets to make those decisions in my day job, I am not about to shoehorn something onto Ubuntu just because I like it over RedHat and run the risk of invalidating support agreements. It's not just huge businesses that stick to RHEL.
Gibson Prichard Nashville, TN [email protected] On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:51 AM Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using Linux nearly exclusively for over 15 years. I use > LinuxMint on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server-side and have always been > quite pleased. I tried CentOS and Red Hat in the past and found them to be > out-of-date and no easier or more reliable than my choices. So my question > is unless you are a corporation that wants to pay big dollars for > specialized support, why would you want to use Red Hat? > > Blake > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 8:00 PM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If you missed it, you can legally now deploy RHEL, in production, on up >> to 16 systems with the (free) Red Hat Developer Program subscription. IMO, >> they should have waited for this to be ready before announcing the change >> to CentOS. >> >> >> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel >> >> Kent >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BJ3mBCZA_ZTV6mWWGdM3WtiLR7Xd3KMS7A55R-SqN6bGZerdw%40mail.gmail.com.
