On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:48:23AM +0000, lejeczek wrote:
>
> I personally am just about to trial a migration from SL7 to Centos.
> I'm thinking it's inevitable, am I wrong?
> 

I tried both SL7 and CentOS7 (and I have CC7 machines running at CERN).

The installer for both have the same idiotic "you *must* create a fake user or no login prompt for you!",
and the same "you *must* use the disk partition tool designed by dummies for dummies".

So no practical difference at installation. Both installers boot from USB flash,
no need to engrave the ISO images into stone tablets (an improvement over SL6).

After installation, I do not have to setup a local mirror for CentOS7 repositories - CentOS7 automatically
finds and downloads all packages from the very super fast mirror at SFU.ca. This is
compared to SL7 which very-very-very-very-very-very slowly slowly slowly downloads all packages from Fermilab.

So one difference there.

Going forward with CentOS7 to stay aligned with CERN.

-- 
Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada