Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

Les Mikesell wrote:

Most of the stuff that you have to use 3rd party repos to get on CentOS is in the stock ubuntu repositories in usably recent versions.

I've found 99% of the things I need on a CentOS (which I only use on home servers) is in the epel repository if it is not in the CentOS repository.

Am I alone in regarding epel as more or less a part of CentOS? Does it have a rival in this role?

What do you need that is not in CentOS + epel?

Surprisingly, all 4 server machines I have seem to support CentOS, or RHEL which I take is the same for this purpose. None of them mention any other kind of Linux. I was surprised to find that the HP MicroServer only supports CentOS/RHEL or WHS, which I've never seen in use.