<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Thank you Nico, i think at this point Centos will be my next testing platform. Sounds good so far.<br><br>>>> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> 12/14/10 7:36 PM >>><br>On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Brunner, Brian T.<br><BBrunner@gai-tronics.com> wrote:<br><br>> CentOS == RedHat.<br>> CentOS has every bug that RedHat has.<br>> CentOS has every bug fix that RedHat has.<br>> When RedHat rolls out a new version (e.g. RHEL6.0) there is a lag of a few<br>> months rolling out the CentOS release of the same version; for bug fixes the<br>> lag is a few days.<br><br>No. It's not. CentOS lacks a number of the clustering features<br>available to RHEL, which are burdened by non-open-source licenses or<br>patents. RHEL is also investing considerable money in development,<br>which is helpful to support, especially if you need bleeding edge<br>drivers (as someone just needed here for a new SAS controller), and<br>for which you'd have to hope Google has an answer or you find someone<br>like, well, *me* to bundle you a new version nad fix it for you.<br><br>CentOS is also much, much faster to update once the updates are<br>published, and to use OS image building tools like "mock", because of<br>the distributed source repository rather than the burdensome DRM<br>involved in the RHN registration tools. CentOS also publishes kernels<br>with NTFS and similar support that RHEL has been leery of.<br><br>> So, the price of RedHat is money, the price for CentOS is patience.<br>> The product sold by RedHat is support, the product 'sold by' CentOS is<br>> self-support.<br>> The relative value of the two arises from your ability to support your<br>> systems.<br><br>And to cover your ass.<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br>CentOS@centos.org<br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br></body></html>