long term support release

[Patrice Dumas]

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).
 
> 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 (not the same entity 
behind, different support and price, additional channels for RHEL...).

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Pat