Using Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at home

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Nick Miller wrote:
> How well does CentOS and other RHEL clones stack up toe the real thing. 
> Do people use them as production enviornment replacements? I have often 
> wondered.

They are exactly the same software.  Built from exactly the same SRPMs. 
  So basically, same stuff as Red Hat.  The only thing that is missing 
is Red Hat logo.  People that do not need Red Hat support, but want 
longer release lifetime (measured in years, instead of months) do use 
them extensivly in production.  Updates are done very quickly after Red 
Hat updates (within a day or two usually).  If you feel update is so 
critical that you can't wait a day or two, you can donwload SRPM from 
Red Hat web site and rebuild the package yourself.

If you have commercial software that requires to be installed on RHEL 
for support, just skip the fact that you are running on an clone when 
speaking with support personel ;-)

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