[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

Mon Mar 21 14:34:21 UTC 2011
compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com>

>> Not just Oracle.  Novell is actively pursuing Red Hat customers and
> >offering to support their Red Hat installations cheaper than Read Hat
> >does.  I know a large international technology company which buys RHEL
> >licenses only for the first year and then switches to Novell for support
> >after that.

>Does Novell provide their own updates (RHEL rebuilds) or how does this
>exactly work ? I doubt Novell can redistribute RHEL binaries in this case.


RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files
and slightly different locations for some config files.

It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make
sense to me that a business would buy RHEL support and then switch to
opensuse.