[CentOS] redhat vs centos

Wed Nov 2 15:27:58 UTC 2011
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:52:36AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I also really dislike their equivalent of grub.conf - it's a long, long
> script, with stuff buried in it, and it calls a bunch of other files,
> rather than the simple, clean one in RH/CentOS.

Yes, it's grub2.  Welcome to the new Fedora world.  Next RH version will
almost certainly have it.   I have a page about it for Fedora
users.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/grub2.html, that covers
minor modifications in Fedora, because with the advent of Fedora 16, it
became the default.  (On the other hand, most of what is on the web right
now is for Ubuntu, which has been using it for awhile.)

Most of the differences I see are pretty minor--not good or bad, per se,
just different, such as using update-rc as something similar to
chkconfig, editing /etc/network/interfaces (I think), rather than
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, and so on. 

Judging from job postings in the NYC area, though, RH/CentOS are still
pretty much dominant. 


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