On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 10:47 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> >
> >
> >Dave ... there is no relationship between centos and rh ...
> >
> Sorry, that was poor wording. I didn't mean a relationship in terms of
> any official partnership between the creators. I meant a relationship in
> the sense that they share a lot of the same features and design. I mean,
> I don't know what RHE looks like, but I know that Fedora and CentOS look
> exactly alike, as far as my newbie eyes can tell.
>
> But really, it's not so much how Red Hat and CentOS connect or don't
> connect that I'm wondering about. It's more about the community of
> support for CentOS. I've been pretty impressed with the helpfulness of
> this list, and I don't feel I'm lacking support. I just feel like when I
> search the net for relatively obvious questions about CentOS, unless
> it's on the centOS web site, there's nothing out there. So I keep coming
> to this list with rock bottom basics.
>
> Let me qualify further. I know that probably a lot of issues I'm likely
> to ask about are more Linux specific than CentOS specific. And I also
> know that so long as I'm reading information about some kind of Red Hat
> build, it probably applies to CentOS. And I also know that most issues
> are to do with the applications rather than the OS.
> But as a newbie, I'm always nervous that if I take information about a
> Linux command from some Linux infortmation web site and apply it on my
> system, it will turn out as often as not that things don't work exactly
> as the web site says, because there's some setting somewhere that makes
> CentOS just a little different from what the web site says.
> It's really comforting when trying to look up information on the net to
> see the information provided in a context that is as close to your own
> as possible. Fedora seems to have lots of people saying they run it and
> here's what they did to configure whatever it was they wanted to
> configure. CentOS... not so much.
> Is it really just that CentOS is so new it hasn't taken hold yet?
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The value of RHEL is in the baseline and support. Red Hat supports it,
Dell, HP, IBM etc. support it. Oracle and other software platforms
support it.
When you use CentOS, the support of these things drifts away. To many of
us, that is no big deal since we pretty much are our own support or have
figured out where to go to get the information that we need.
To a lot of companies, having a company on which you can rely upon for
answers has a substantial value.
I offer both options to my clients...some pick RHEL, some pick CentOS
(formerly used Whitebox but John has his own priorities which sometimes
lag behind mine).
Craig
