Using Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at home

[David Curry]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> 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.
>
> SNIP --   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.
>
> SNIP

Thanks to all who contributed to this subject thread and to Aleksandar, 
in particular, for the thoughts above.