On top of that, it just seems logical granted the RHEL binary compatibility thing. It's used by many apps to detect the distro you're using, so...
2011/4/29 John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com
On 4/29/2011 1:46 PM, Digimer wrote:
On 04/29/2011 01:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
I've always been surprised that CentOS ships /etc/redhat-release given the above paragraph.
Probably a programmatic requirement, if I was the betting type.
I could easily be confused as it has been so long now... I think Whitebox actually changed that to whitebox-release and maybe CentOS did the save very early on. But, many applications look for that file and if they see redhat-release, know their stuff can run on your system and you are off to the races. I suppose the final answer was it wasn't an infringement and solved a lot of other problems. Seems I had to edit this file or name to get something to run on a server like 4 or 5 years ago?
Am I required to remember everything I did from that long back? LOL There might be some stuff in the archives though... back in the early ver. 3 days.
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