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On 11/11/15 15:17, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote:
>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Devin Reade
>>
>> The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you
>> can probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the
>> same on RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases),
>> however your 3rd party vendor may refuse to support you at all if
>> you're using something that's not on their supported platforms
>> list.
>
> Hehehe, for what it's worth, I encountered one of those edge cases
> a few years ago. Dell OMSA, at least in the days of Centos 4, was
> distributed as a self-extracting binary, that would read the
> contents of /etc/redhat-release and compare it against a list of
> predefined strings, and then refused to operate. The workaround was
> to hack /etc/redhat-release.
>
> But anyway. That's pretty unusual. Thanks...
>
IBM do something similar with GPFS. You have to tell it you are using
RHEL when you are on CentOS.
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