[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

[Simon Morris]

Hello,

Starting to look at CentOS for a company that needs Enterprise level 
support from Red Hat on a few servers but wishes to have the "free as in 
beer" benefit of Linux on other servers.

I wouldn't recommend installing different distros as the maintenance and 
support issues become more complicated.

However CentOS claims to be 100% binary compatible with a "prominent 
North American Enterprise Linux vendor."

A question to people who have used both RHES and CentOS (and aimed also 
at a certain Mr Singh :) )...

Where would support engineers who have a little Linux knowledge (first 
and second line support guys) come unstuck when using these two 
operating systems?

Are they similar enough that for day to day maintenance they wouldn't 
know/care which distribution they were working on?

Is the lack of software from Red Hat in CentOS enough to make 
administering these servers wildy different from one another.

Thanks for any opinion you can give.

~sm
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