[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:46:55PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> 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?

Cantos take the RH source RPMs and recompile them. The only changes that they
make are to remove some RH trade/copyrighted stuff like logos.

IE there is no real difference.

> 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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