long term support release
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 14:21:40 UTC 2008
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Right. CentOS is a different distro. It is not RHEL nor Fedora.
> It's the same difference as between Debian and its recompile called
> Ubuntu.
>
> RHEL and CentOS just happen to be largely compatible, because they are
> derivatives from the same sources.
The compatibility isn't accidental. Unlike Ubuntu, which exists to fix
issues in Debian, Centos is modified as little as legally permitted.
A yum repository for RHEL/Centos containing as many as possible of the
additional packages available in fedora would pretty much fill the need
being discussed here. Or several, if the primary one won't include Sun
Java, vlc + codecs, and Nvidia/Ati drivers.
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Les Mikesell
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