On top of that, it just seems logical granted the RHEL binary compatibility thing. It's used by many apps to detect the distro you're using, so...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/29 John Hinton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webmaster@ew3d.com">webmaster@ew3d.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 4/29/2011 1:46 PM, Digimer wrote:<br>
> On 04/29/2011 01:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:<br>
>> I've always been surprised that CentOS ships /etc/redhat-release given<br>
>> the above paragraph.<br>
> Probably a programmatic requirement, if I was the betting type.<br>
><br>
</div>I could easily be confused as it has been so long now... I think<br>
Whitebox actually changed that to whitebox-release and maybe CentOS did<br>
the save very early on. But, many applications look for that file and if<br>
they see redhat-release, know their stuff can run on your system and you<br>
are off to the races. I suppose the final answer was it wasn't an<br>
infringement and solved a lot of other problems. Seems I had to edit<br>
this file or name to get something to run on a server like 4 or 5 years<br>
ago?<br>
<br>
Am I required to remember everything I did from that long back? LOL<br>
There might be some stuff in the archives though... back in the early<br>
ver. 3 days.<br>
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