[tlug] CentOS & RHEL (was Re: Fedora is fun to play with, but poor for servers that face the web (was Upgrading to PHP5 on Fedora))

[Micheal E Cooper <mcooper@example.com>]

Jim wrote:
>
> Better yet, upgrade to Centos. The whole Fedora series is for playing 
> around with, but not for running production servers exposed to the web. 
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> <snip>
>
> Centos has support for _years_, by tracking RHEL. 
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> <snip>
>   
> Centos. 
>
> It's not as exciting as Fedora Core, but it's more robust. 
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>
>   
So what is the deal with CentOS and RHEL? Is Centos just a copy of the
free parts of RHEL, or is it a separate distro that aims for complete
compatibility?

I use RHEL, but I would like to experiment more and not have to learn
other distros yet, so maybe CentOS would be a good way to run something
RHEL-like without the flakiness of Fedora Core. I have had enough of FCx.

mec

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