[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 15:24:24 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No clone distros, including CentOS and Scientific Linux, are perfect.
> If someone asks which of the two has a better binary compatibility, I
> would answer, "they are equally good".

One of the 'selling points' as a big reason to use open source is that
you can fix problems or add features on your own by rebuilding from
source.  If, in fact, you cannot rebuild a src rpm and get a working
copy then in that respect you might as well be using closed,
proprietary software.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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