[CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

Athmane Madjoudj athmanem at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 13:09:33 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle
> enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm
> curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be
> any differences that would be worth caring about?
>
>  the only thing i can think of that might be worthwhile is that OEL
> might change some of the default kernel parms thru /etc/sysctl.conf
> that make that distro more appropriate for running large oracle
> databases.  beyond that, i have no idea.
>
>  thoughts?
>
> rday
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CentOS is 100% RHEL clone  + Extra repos

While OEL include Yast (from SuSE).


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Athmane Madjoudj


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