On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:38 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:27 -0700, Craig White wrote:
as far as they are concerned, I am running RHEL - no difference.
Unless you need to ship it back. ;->
---- not that this is a real test but it works for a lot of things...
# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
# cat /etc/redhat-release.bak CentOS release 3.5 (Final) ----
as far as warranty, they have to warranty what they sell.
Now that gets interesting. Read your sales contract very well. They can force you to go to the hardware manufacturer if you are not under the terms of it.
---- If there is hardware failure, they don't generally argue about it and in fact, they are very reasonable with at the least, next day replacement ----
as far as support, they won't offer OS support on OS's that they don't support.
They can also make things difficult for you. I'd rather reward a vendor that offers support for what I run, no games, no dancing around.
---- No argument there.
Craig