Free RH ES 4.0 or equvelent

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi Ed,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org]
> There are a few things you need to be aware of - the main one is that
> you do NOT end up with RHEL when you're done.  You end up 
> with something
> very close to RHEL but there are 3rd party applications that won't
> install or run, and there may be bugs in the binaries that the
> rebuilders have built that aren't in the Red Hat binaries (this has
> happened in the past because the compilers Red Hat used to build the
> binaries weren't the same ones as they were shipping).

thats a new one on me. Do you have any examples of incompatibilities and/or bugs ?
We use some CentOS boxes in a dev environment and have had no issues .. yet ;)


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