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