Hello list. I am assigned the task to select a RHEL3 clone operating system for a couple of servers. So far I have found Whitehat Linux, Tao, Scientific Linux and Centos. I like the community developed aspect advantage of Centos compared to the other distros where one or couple people maintain the operating system.
- Is this a long term goal project? How does it sustain itself? How much extra money is usually required on a monthly basis for operations? I noticed that developers had to pay for hosting costs when new iso images were released. Wouldn't using bittorrent cut down on downloading costs?
- How does Centos compare to other RHEL clones? Are there enough developers to quickly update packages when Redhat makes security announcements?
- Do Centos developers have access to RHEL3 machines or is everything done on Centos computers? For that matter do developers compile the Redhat released SRPMS + updates on RHEL computers or are binary RPM packages built on Centos operating system itself? I am asking because it would seem to me that using a full Redhat provided distro to build packages might introduce less erorrs?
- What is changed from official RHEL releases besides the copyrighted logos for each Centos release? I am not talking about packages in the addons directories. Just the base os release packages.
Many thank yous.Max.
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Max Beerli wrote:
Hello list. I am assigned the task to select a RHEL3 clone operating system for a couple of servers. So far I have found Whitehat Linux, Tao, Scientific Linux and Centos. I like the community developed aspect advantage of Centos compared to the other distros where one or couple people maintain the operating system.
Max,
You ask a lot of important and valuable questions. Some of your questions are answered on a CentOS website under development: http://webdev.centos.org. I can't answer all your questions, but I do look forward to seeing the answers posted by the core developers. I see several opportunities to add web content based on their responses.
- What is changed from official RHEL releases besides the copyrighted
logos for each Centos release? I am not talking about packages in the addons directories. Just the base os release packages.
This is one thing I was interested in too. Sort of a high-level "diff" between the RHEL and CentOS packages, even if its just maintained as comments in the RPM changelog.
jim
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jim Bartus wrote:
- What is changed from official RHEL releases besides the copyrighted
logos for each Centos release? I am not talking about packages in the addons directories. Just the base os release packages.
This is one thing I was interested in too. Sort of a high-level "diff" between the RHEL and CentOS packages, even if its just maintained as comments in the RPM changelog.
In general it is - or in patch files which are readable.
Look for .centos.x srpms (.c0 ones just have spec file changes eg Red Hat -> CentOS
The answer is as little as possible - except adding yum
Regards Lance
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