On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 14:45 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi... > > new to centos, but i have a few questions... > > i understand that centos is a derivative of rhel, created from the > exact/underluing source files used to create rhel. CentOS is not in any way associated with, affiliated with, or supported by Red Hat, Inc. CentOS is built from open source SRPMS. Here is where we get the RPMS that we build: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ and http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/ > if this is the case, is > it possible to get the actual source SRPMS for either RHEL, or for CentOS? > See the above links for the upstream SRPMS that we use and for CentOS SRPMS (the ones we actually build from ... we first remake the and resign the point of origin SRPMS {change the ones that are required}): http://mirror.centos.org/centos/ (we have several Repositories ... each one has an SRPMS directory) http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/Readme.txt > I used to see the source files on the redaht system, but I don't seem to see > them anymore... > > i'm curious to know what's better, using CentOS, or the latest fedora FC > version... > That depends on what you want (enterprise software or latest/greatest), see this article: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdf > thanks > > -bruce > bedouglas at earthlink.net Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060610/c94accb9/attachment-0004.sig>