<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you want a paid enterprise solution - I would go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you don't have any budget I would lean toward Scientific Linux as compared to CentOS. SL is much closer to Red Hat than CentOS. Plus, SL is actually funded by a number of large entities - like Fermi and NASA.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>+1, SL often quicker with initial releases, centos often quicker with routine updates, i find rhel/centos/SL to be completely compatible, i'm happy with the stability and long support life.
packages that aren't available from rhel, centos, or SL are usually
available from either dag (excellent maintenance), puias, remi, epel (a
tad less reliable), and/or a few others.<br></div></div>