Consider PCLinuxOS. 'PLOS' has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it's derivation from RH is super long ago so it's closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose's vocal range compared to EL's Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week's version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there's no magical fix for "10 second tom" devs here either.