i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about
3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL
(apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs,
i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from
there.
as part of the intro, i want to briefly discuss the varieties of
linux related to RHEL, so obviously i want to mention what centos is
all about. in a nutshell, it's simply RHEL with any RH-proprietary
branding removed, yes? what's the simplest way to sum up the
difference in a sentence or two?
and i've never used SL but, again as i understand it, it's also RHEL
unbranded but, IIRC, SL is more open to producing updates, whereas
centos is rigourous about tracking the corresponding RHEL version.
does that sound about right?
rday
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