[CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

Sat Nov 8 16:39:27 UTC 2008
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:59:02PM +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again  
>>> that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS and  
>>> everything that involves. I think it would be of benefit to have a one  
>>> stop page to point users to that explains the concepts and provides the  
>>> information required. Much of this content already exists on the Wiki  
>>> but it is scattered over many individual pages and new users often don't  
>>> find it (new users often don't search at all!)
> 
> IMO, the FAQ, http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/ is the proper
> place for this sort of information. Regardless of whether the
> questioners search or not, a frequently asked questiuon belongs there.
> 
> Maybe the CentOS page needs to highlight the FAQ more by moving it out
> from under the "Information" drop-down and putting it as a big splash
> right there on the home page?
> <snip>
> 

Good point Bill. Maybe these issues just need splitting up into 
individual FAQs and adding to that section. And if the answer requires 
much more than a couple of sentences then a separate page can be created 
and linked to provide a more in depth answer.

BTW, a more maintained version of the FAQs now resides on the Wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ