How compatible are RHEL and clones?

[Alfred Hovdestad]

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    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
    University of Saskatchewan



Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> We're looking at installing a pair of boxes to do LDAP in a
> load-balanced environment, and I was considering putting RHEL on one
> with the corresponding license, support, etc., and then putting
> CentOS, White Box Linux, etc., on the other and keeping the config
> files, software, and everything else synchronized across the two in
> order to save money on the RH license.
> 
> 1.  Is this even possible?
> 
> 2.  Is it a good idea, or out-and-out stupidity?
> 
> 3.  Has anyone else done this?
> 
> 4.  Are any of the RHEL clones any better than any of the others as
>     far as compatibility is concerned?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
>