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Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User community (Wife and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. For the new people to Linux I've noted that NT admins can very easily install ubuntu and get it running (for awhile). From what I remember it had a Windozie feel. Coming from the Solaris, AIX, and HP world I prefer stability. <BR>
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On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 19:20 +0000, Always Learning wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Mark Roth wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> You do understand the relationship of CentOS to RHEL, right?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Right :-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Once upon a time Red Hat was free. Then they decided to exist purely on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">support fees. Meanwhile a bunch of supporters invented a downstream</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">variant called Centos. They worked very hard to remove all the Red Hat</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">branding and recompile (is that the correct Linux term?) the software.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There was so ugly goings on which were publicised but eventually</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">resolved. The other downstream variant is called Scientific Linux and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that is a joint collaboration between Europe's CERN and it's USA</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">equivalent Fermilab. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and Visual Box. The long term future for these is uncertain.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Pure Centos is identical to Red Hat. However various repositories offer</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">extras and variants which make the installed Centos slightly different</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">from Red Hat. One can sometimes install some Fedora items into Centos.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Centos is great.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Will that do ?</FONT>
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