[CentOS] CentOS and Dell Support

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:38 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:27 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > as far as they are concerned, I am running RHEL - no difference.
> 
> Unless you need to ship it back.  ;->
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not that this is a real test but it works for a lot of things...

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)

# cat /etc/redhat-release.bak
CentOS release 3.5 (Final)
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> 
> > as far as warranty, they have to warranty what they sell.
> 
> Now that gets interesting.  Read your sales contract very well.  They
> can force you to go to the hardware manufacturer if you are not under
> the terms of it.
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If there is hardware failure, they don't generally argue about it and in
fact, they are very reasonable with at the least, next day replacement
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> 
> > as far as support, they won't offer OS support on OS's that they don't
> > support.
> 
> They can also make things difficult for you.  I'd rather reward a vendor
> that offers support for what I run, no games, no dancing around.
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No argument there.

Craig