long term support release

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:56:48AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > > RHEL/CentOS + EPEL as Fedora LTS, but for the world CentOS and Fedora
> > > are totally different things.
> > Right. CentOS is a different distro. It is not RHEL nor Fedora.
> > It's the same difference as between Debian and its recompile called
> > Ubuntu.
> 
> There are more difference between ubuntu and debian than between
> rhel and centos (and even more so in centos5/RHEL5 since yum is
> everywhere now).
Gotcha! RHEL and CentOS are different OSes.
 
> > RHEL and CentOS just happen to be largely compatible, because they are
> > derivatives from the same sources.
> 
> They are more than largely compatible, they are almost similar. There
> are differences, but not really related to the bits
Unless you buy RHEL from RH, you will not be able to tell.

Ralf