on 6-3-2009 6:10 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following:
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:14:55 +0200:
Probably the latter. CentOS 5 SP 3 would maybe have been a better choice than CentOS 5.3
Not if one wants to stay in sync with the RHEL naming scheme :-)
It clearly is the other way round, Red Hat has adopted ours.
Let's see if we can pull that one again! >:)
Ralph
I think the RedHat CentOS relationship is mutually beneficial. We get a kick ass distro for only the cost of the work involved, and they get lots of bug fixes, and bug reports with very detailed reproduction steps. They also get a very large base of potential users when businesses move up to wanting/needing support. Replace a few rpm's and you have a RedHat system ready for a paid support contract.
And where would Oracle's unbreakable linux be if CentOS hadn't done most of the heavy lifting first?