Ubuntu being used in Cisco cluster project...

[mattboston-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

RHEL (and any derivatives) are always behind on new features.

-matt

On 8/17/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > OK, so what makes Ubuntu particularly cool for this, as opposed
> > to Debian or Red Hat or any other distro?
>
> libata support was around in Ubuntu before RHEL5/CentOS-5 came out.
> So, before RHEL5, we were utilizing Ubuntu.  When CentOS-5 was finally
> released (after much delay), we switched back to it because the
> version of Ubuntu we were using was not an LTS release.  When 8.04 LTS
> appears, we may want to switch for the new Completely Fair Scheduler
> (CFS).
>
> Ubuntu is the only distro, to my knowledge, that includes VMware
> Server in their repositories, which is another added benefit.  Since
> we rely on this stuff, it is useful to get automated security
> fixes/updates to the packages if we like.  This means we don't have to
> grunt through the pain of their tar.gz or RPM release, which sometimes
> has problems with the kernel, as anyone who has configured VMware
> before knows.  Sometimes your vmmon module will not build correctly
> due to kernel changes :-)
>
> Now we don't have to worry about patching VMware with any-any and/or
> working around a new kernel which is incompatible by default...
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