-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Eckel Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 5:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS
While that may seem a bit strange insofar as the upgrade mechanism with RHEL works quite the same as with CentOS by default (running updates regularly will make RHEL cross .x boundaries when they are reached), the different behaviour might come from three facts: 1. some vendors restrict their support to specific .x releases, 2. RHEL systems tend to run in production environments more often than CentOS systems, so they are subject to stricter rules regarding testing and clearance of updates, and 3. maintaining a RHN satellite or allowing internet access for RHN-registered systems is not part of the enterprise's IT strategy (don't laugh).
So at the current shop I am in, they have updates provided by Satellite and the channel is locked on the point release. I just wondered how common this was.
Thanks for all insight everyone.
jlc