i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about 3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL (apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs, i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from there.
as part of the intro, i want to briefly discuss the varieties of linux related to RHEL, so obviously i want to mention what centos is all about. in a nutshell, it's simply RHEL with any RH-proprietary branding removed, yes? what's the simplest way to sum up the difference in a sentence or two?
and i've never used SL but, again as i understand it, it's also RHEL unbranded but, IIRC, SL is more open to producing updates, whereas centos is rigourous about tracking the corresponding RHEL version.
does that sound about right?
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