Fedora home server using core 9

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 2 13:06:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:12 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > The "funny thing" is that Ed speaks the truth - Scientific Linux, CenotOS
> > and several others are in fact legitimate clones of Red Hat Enterprise
> > Linux, without the branding and without the official, enterprise-level,
> > support.
> 
> One small advantage (well actually quite large for me)
> with CentOS is that if you are running a Dell server
> [I got one a few months ago when they had an absurdly cheap offer]
> then CentOS is actually the recommended OS,
> and you can get automatic Dell upgrades, etc, if you run CentOS
> (as well as the usual CentOS updates).
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I seriously doubt that you would have experienced many differences with
scientificlinux.

Since they are both derived from the same source rpm's of RHEL, the
differences are more philosophical than the packages themselves.

Craig




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