Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Marko A. Jennings wrote:

On Sun, March 20, 2011 7:29 pm, William Warren wrote:

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their changes are really aimed at oracle..the rest is smoke and mirrors..:) oracle is basically(pardon me here) Centos with charges. That's basically all oracle is going with unbreakable Linux.

Not just Oracle. Novell is actively pursuing Red Hat customers and offering to support their Red Hat installations cheaper than Read Hat does. I know a large international technology company which buys RHEL licenses only for the first year and then switches to Novell for support after that.

Does Novell provide their own updates (RHEL rebuilds) or how does this exactly work ? I doubt Novell can redistribute RHEL binaries in this case.