[CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)
Akemi Yagi
amyagi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 02:39:51 UTC 2011
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically from what I gather, while Red Hat cannot restrict access to
> sources, they can restrict access to binaries. And since CentOS has a
> goal of binary compatibility with upstream, they are essentially left
> trying to hit an unknown target. But (now I'm stretching my limited
> knowledge even further) Scientific does not have this restriction
> since they are less concerned about exact binary compat.
You are stretching your knowledge to a wrong direction :)
Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility
and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither
is perfect.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-November/119250.html
Akemi
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