2/18/2023 0 Comments Download virtualbox for centos 6.5It seems it adds some features we didn’t need. * Scientific Linux – also a RHEL derivative – but we couldn’t figure out why we should choose this one over CentOS. * CentOS – a functionally compatible fork of RHEL – this is the one we chose in the end because it seems identical to RHEL – just the name and some branding differs. Luckily, there are several distributions which are very similar to RHEL, but come with fewer shackles (basically because they’ve removed all RedHat trademarks). It suffices that our customer has a RHEL support license, so if we ever run into any serious problems, we can call for help that way. The default way of distributing software for RHEL and similar operating systems is by packaging it into an RPM file, and ship it.Ĭhoosing a distribution for local developmentĪs many other dev shops, we pretty much use Macs for workstations, with Debian on our servers, so getting into RHEL meant learning some new Linux ways, and figuring out how to practice packaging on local virtual machines (with VirtualBox and Vagrant).įirst we tried installing RHEL locally on VirtualBox, and this worked fine, but we didn’t want to impose ourselves with the enterprisey licensing deals of RedHat, as we only wanted to do local development and testing, and the entire operating system is open source after all. We’ve recently delivered our first round of packages in a project where the customer is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). TL DR: Build and test RPM packages on local virtual CentOS machines before deploying to RHEL.
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