On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:25:32PM -0800, Lopez, Denise wrote:
> We have been using RHEL 3 / 4 in our environment and I am very happy and
> satisfied with the stability of the OS. Now with the new technologies
> incorporated into RHEL5, specifically Virtualization, Clustering, and Storage,
> and the costs associated with them, I was wondering how similar CentOS and RHEL
> 5 were.
They should be identical.
>
>
> It is my understanding that CentOS is RHEL 5 with the RedHat icons removed but
> the functionality of the packages is the same. In addition, updates may come a
> day or two later than RHEL 5.
>
Correct. In addition, I think the CentOS kernels are basically the
"AS" kernels, and obviously there is no activation key, nor will you be
able to use RHN for errata notification, etc.
>
> My boss is a little concerned about the differences since we host production
> servers that require minimal downtime.
>
We typically continue to use RHEL for production stuff, and CentOS for
anything non-critical. Not that CentOS wouldn't make a solid
production server.
Ray
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