ROSA Enterprise Linux

[MrColin]

From the folks who brought us Mandriva, ROSA is based on RHEL6.
http://www.rosalab.com/products/server

 

[lxskllr]

Why would someone use this over CentOS; (alternate to RedHat)support?

 

[Paperlantern]

Well I wondered the same thing, so guess what, i clicked on the link and found out!

I may try this, it almost looks fruity, but if its BASICALLY RHEL/CentOS at the core, the stability should be there. I run most servers in level 3 anyway, so looks would be moot. I like that there is a built in web UI (I usually put WEBMIN on my CentOS installs anyway, so Id be curious to see what that entails, and if it is any better), built in VPN, I like that, though it would depend on what it offers.

I think I'll download it and see if I can find out more about it and maybe post back tomorrow.

 

[Paperlantern]

Downloaded it, but then ended up loading a different PC that was a couple years newer than the one I was using. Had to break the RAID 0 Array I had running as my boot volume to do that as I needed one of the disks, and forgot to back up the ISO. Redownloading now. Will try to load this up this week or this weekend.

 

[MrColin]

Why would someone use this over CentOS; (alternate to RedHat)support?

CentOS is basically the GPLed parts of RHEL which has the branding somewhat crudely patched out. Its a very small number of guys with a very narrow scope for maintaining the distro. ROSA has some development and support behind desktop and server uses, as well as vehicle and classroom solutions. http://www.rosalab.com/products/

While its theoretically possible to create just about anything you want netbooting CentOS installer with mirrors and a kickstart file, ROSA provides a more push-button and go, polished, commercial distro.

Personally, I've been abusing ROSA in Virtualbox and its holding up fine, CentOS crashes Virtualbox all by itself. I've never actually used RHEL.

The Russian company/repositories kind of freak me out though.