CentOS 5 has been released. This release contains many enhancements, including the integration of Xen, a new SELinux policy that allows for easier modification, AIGLX/compiz, and up to date versions of important opensource software.
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Debian's repositories have a much better selection of software.
I do not intend to start a distro flamewar, but people may be interested in the additional repositories that are available for CentOS:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
For instance, the RPMForge repository provides a lot of high-quality add-on packages. It can be used fairly safely in conjunction with the yum priorities plugin, which allows you to protect from CentOS packages being upgraded with packages third party repositories:
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
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Well the point is that I am very eager to try out CentOS 5.0, compare it to the brand new Debian 4.0 stable since they are both out almost simultaneously and they aim at providing competing solutions in the same, identical market. Never should the quantity of packages available for a GNU/Linux distribution be the sole and decisive factor for its quality. Neither "user - friendly" nor "feature - rich" should be above proper, overall software quality assessment in the solution provided.
It is better to have something that you know that always will work than something that will unreliably do your bidding.
Also note that if you are to deploy either in an "enterprise" level, then at some point you will be doing your own .deb and .rpm.
Just a clarification on the "indeedy".
EDIT: quality assessment = > proper, overall software quality assessment
Edited 2007-04-12 23:24
Member since:2005-07-06
... But with EPEL [1], it's RHEL/CentOS will reduce the gap considerably.
- Gilboa
[1] Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux is RHEL's "port" of Fedora's -extras.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/
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True. And that's a convenience if you need some really obscure packages.
On the other hand, CentOS5 has better administration tools, SELinux, Fortify_Source, Exec-Shield, Xen, a predictable release schedule of 18-24 months, and 7 years of support for every release.
For servers, there really is no comparison.
Edited 2007-04-13 10:00
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2006-01-18
Debian's repositories have a much better selection of software.