long term support release

[Horst H. von Brand]

Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 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 and CentOS just happen to be largely compatible, because they are
> > > derivatives from the same sources.

One of CentOS' main objectives is to be binary compatible with RHEL. It
mostly changes branding and artwork, but there are some extra packages too.

> > 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.

Could you elaborate?
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