RHEL4 vs CentOS-4

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 7/6/06, Prosper Luteganya <rutayoba at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
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>  I understand that the following products differ in price based on the
> extend of support. Apart from that, is there any other difference (i.e.
> performance, kernel stability etc)?
>

I don't think this is really on-topic for the Dell Poweredge list.

The differences between CentOS and RHEL are mainly in the type and
level of support you get from each. CentOS support is whatever you get
from IRC, mailling lists or what you will pay a consultant to answer.
The mailling lists and IRC will not spoon feed an answer and will tell
a person that they are an idiot directly versus telling their
bartender at the end of the shift.

For as much as I can tell, the base Centos is RHEL recompiled with the
same options etc. and the Red Hat trademarks removed. If your
organization does not need any support  then CentOS can be a good
match.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator