What do you think of Centos
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Feb 23 23:32:11 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:01 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:54 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> >
> >> CentOS is taking a distribution created via someone else's hard work
> >> and rebranding it as their own. They're essentially relying on Red
> >> Hat Software, Inc., for all their distribution and release
> >> engineering. I don't care for that.
> >>
> > Chris, this is not accurate: I understood that Centos is providing RHEL
> > type of distributions for platforms not supported by RH. I believe that
> > Sun Sparc fits in this category as well as the power pc architecture
>
> ppc32 fits this category. RHEL offers a ppc64 version. We are running it
> on a cluster here. CentOS also offers an Alpha version in this category.
>
> CentOS does overlap RHEL in i386, x86_64, ia64. CentOS offers s390. I
> thought RH did as well, but I don't see it in RHN channels.
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CentOS 4 i386 provides i586 support whereas RHEL 4 does not.
I don't know about s390.
Craig
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