<div dir="auto"><div>That's how it used to be, back when RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS were equal peers on the Software Development Lifecycle River.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The "upstream" distro was Fedora, all the newest, most bleeding edge stuff.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You could get and install CentOS and be (virtually) Bug-For-Bug compatible with RHEL Proper. All was right in the world, but this wasn't making a cent for RedHat. Why buy the cow, when I can get the milk for free?!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then RedHat "killed" CentOS by moving it "Upstream" next to Fedora. No Enterprise company would ever run that in production, EVER ... and that was the point. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Most large enterprises migrated their production CentOS over to RHEL proper and started paying several hundred thousand a year for that privilege.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Speaking from first hand experience, the Arizona power company APS -- we pay just under a MILLION dollars a year for JUST the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) ... That's not counting all the actual RedHat VMs we use, or RedHat Satellite. We're probably into RedHat for 3-5 million, all in, every year.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But back to David's point. Ubuntu Server does have market share, albeit drastically smaller, but does exist.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Thanks,<br>Alexander<br><br>Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 13:37 David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but my imprssion is that Ubuntu is mainly for desktop use, while CentOS is used by a vast number of commercial hosting companies for their hosting machines. <br>
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Also, CentOS is basically a pre-configured Red Hat distro, while Ubuntu is GUI-oriented Debian distro. <br>
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-David Schwartz<br>
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> On Dec 5, 2024, at 11:42 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Asked AI about configuring a Vhost oh RedHat and it wants Apache to be the docroot owner. It also shows some manual config for VSC...<br>
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> On 2024-12-05 11:14, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
>> Thanks....I'm in consideration/research stage.<br>
>> On 2024-12-05 10:53, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br>
>>> Okay, seriously though, it's easy. Go setup a RedHat account. Then go<br>
>>> to <a href="http://developer.redhat.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">developer.redhat.com</a> [1] and do that flow. I don't immediately<br>
>>> remember what that requires, but it's fairly straightforward and free.<br>
>>> I only have to revisit that flow once per year, and I have trouble<br>
>>> remembering what I did last week.<br>
>>> You can then navigate their site and download the RHEL iso and create<br>
>>> a VM from it. During the setup you can register your VM, or you can do<br>
>>> it later from the CLI.<br>
>>> Let me know if you have any issues.<br>
>>> ---<br>
>>> Thanks,<br>
>>> Alexander<br>
>>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro<br>
>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 10:43 Snyder, Alexander J<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:alexander@snyderfamily.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alexander@snyderfamily.co</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Yeah. Use RHEL Proper. It's the tits.<br>
>>>> ---<br>
>>>> Thanks,<br>
>>>> Alexander<br>
>>>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro<br>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 10:39 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> Hi,<br>
>>>>> As mentioned before I used to use CentOS as a development and<br>
>>>>> testing<br>
>>>>> web server.<br>
>>>>> As I recall it was simple to configure a virtual host.<br>
>>>>> 1) create the docroot off the home directory like this<br>
>>>>> /home/<user-name>/public_html/<br>
>>>>> 2) Create an Apache Virtual host configuration file. I recall<br>
>>>>> having<br>
>>>>> one "large" Apache configuration file that contained all of my<br>
>>>>> virtual<br>
>>>>> hosts.<br>
>>>>> I'm a PHP developer not a system administrator. All these Ubuntu<br>
>>>>> PHP-FPM configuration issues are causing me to re-consider Ubuntu<br>
>>>>> as a<br>
>>>>> server... YIKES!!<br>
>>>>> I want to keep things simple so I can get onto my PHP coding<br>
>>>>> projects.<br>
>>>>> Any Thoughts?<br>
>>>>> Thanks!!<br>
>>>>> Keith<br>
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