On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 06:08 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:46 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 23:08 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:46 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > > > I am a new user of Centos and have started the process of becoming > > > > > informed as to what centos can do. Sorry to ask a simple question but > > > > > can you tell me where centos 4.4 compares with Red Hat Enterpres AS or > > > > > ES? > > > > > > > > There is no technical difference between RHEL AS and RHEL ES. The > > > > difference is in what Red Hat will or will not support as far as the > > > > number of CPUs and the amount of RAM in a system. RHEL 4 ES and RHEL 4 > > > > AS can both support the hardware listed for RHEL AS. The difference is > > > > that if you call Red Hat and have support for RHEL ES and you have more > > > > than 2 physical processors or more than 16 GB of RAM they will tell you > > > > that you are running an unsupported configuration. If you are running > > > > RHEL 4 AS with the same configuration, you are running a supported > > > > configuration. > > > > > > > > These issues do not plague CentOS. You can expect CentOS 4 to run > > > > hardware up to the same configuration of RHEL 4 AS. > > > > > > > > Barry > > > > > > Barry and Craig, > > > > > > Thanks for your answers. This helps a lot. Is there anything that RH 4 > > > ES or AS can do that Centos 4.4 is unable to perform. Then it looks > > > like Centos is just as stable as ES or AS, and the support will probably > > > be better on this list than calling RH. > > > > > > I was considering migrating an application from SCO to RedHat, and now > > > it looks like Centos would even be better. > > ---- > > Red Hat is selling a service level agreement. CentOS is user supported. > > > > You have to draw your own conclusions as to the value of a Red Hat SLA. > > > > Craig > > > > Also, > > I would point out that RH has the RHN ... which will allow you to > register machines and push configurations or updates to specific > machines via that interface. > > CentOS does not have a server register mechanism that pushes updates and > all updates are pull to the client. CentOS uses either yum or up2date > (run on the client) to pull updates from our mirrors (or from a local > mirror if you configure it that way). > > Most users use up2date on RHEL (which is pull as well), so this is not > really a major issue, however centrally controlled push updates is > another benefit of an RHEL subscription. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > CentOS-4 Lead Developer > _______________________________________________ Everyone, Thanks again for your response. In regards to RH support it has been very good, but the user support I have received on the Fedora list and what will be present on this list has been even better. The yum updates on individual machines will be very satisfactory for us. I am continuing my testing of CentOS and everything is going better than I expected. Greg