On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:07 -0800, Alex Chen wrote:
We need to resell systems that run commercial software on Linux. We were using Red Hat ES 3 originally. But we later realize that we cannot redistribute RHES without paying them huge subscription fee because of the trademark. I came across CentOS from WBEL mailing list. This looks like a godsend to me. I have some questions regarding CentOS. I would appreciate it if someone can provide me the answers:
- Can I use your package to install a machine for resell? Is there fee
involved? Do you have any EULA that I can get?
It's GPL, that is the EULA.
- I believe it is RHES based, what is the version matrix corresponding
to Red Hat ES?
CentOS-4.2 is EL4 update 2. It is most closely related to the AS product.
- Does it have extra stuff other than vanilla RHES added?
Yes and no. If you use just the [base] and [update] sections, the only additions are yum and the items required to run yum. The only changes are as explained in the release notes.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
- If I decide to do the rebuild myself to remove the RH trademark
stuff, what packages should I modify?
We modified everything in the OS tree that has a .centos4 in the name (and the kernel, which does not have a .centos4 in the name due to 3rd party drivers).
But, unless you plan to also rebuild every update and setup a mirror system to distribute the updates to your customers, CentOS is probably your best bet.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Alex
Thanks, Johnny Hughes