[H-GEN] RPM installs

[Josh Marshall]

Ronald Bradford wrote:

>> [1] I wouldn't advocate Fedora either. The 5 year life cycle on RHEL is
>> really quite labour saving.
>>
>>  
>>
> Since you brought this up David, I would not use Fedora, I use 
> CentOS.  For all those that have no idea what it is,  
> http://www.centos.org/
>
After having switched to Debian from Redhat years ago, one of the most 
important things to me was easy of upgrade from one release to the next 
(and yes I do have servers that were upgraded from Potato to Woody to 
Sarge quite successfully)

I'm wondering if the upgrade method has been vastly improved for the RH 
/ CentOS / derivatives, as I did have an absolute nightmare trying to 
upgrade my Redhat 6.1 server to 6.3, then never tried an upgrade since, 
just re-installed everything from scratch each time.

Has yum resolved those issues?

Most of the servers I administer are Debian Woody, I will be looking at 
upgrading them to Sarge sometime in the future. Is RHEL / CentOS more 
"stable" than Debian "Stable" or just mainly better for those 
non-Opensource apps such as the big databases / Lotus Notes kinda things 
as they are "supported" by the vendor?

Flames aside please, I don't want to be part of starting a distro-flame 
war, but I would like a few opinions shared.

Josh.