Re: CentOS vs Redhat

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:07:21 -0400

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:42:27 -0700, alex goldman wrote:

> Lately I've been thinking of dumping Gentoo that I've been using for a year
> in favor of something more hassle-free like CentOS.
>
> Can anyone tell me if the driver support in CentOS is identical to Redhat's?
>
> What possible downsides are there to using CentOS instead of Redhat (besides
> official customer support and Oracle certification) ?

Use Fedora Core (FC4 just came out) unless you actually need RHEL because
you are using a commercial package that requires it or because you want
very long support cycles. If you've been using Gentoo then neither of
those conditions holds for you. FC and RHEL are nearly identical except
that FC is more up to date and less well tested then RHEL. Even though FC
is described as development software it's actually very solid, certainly
better then any of the RedHat Linux releases were before the split between
Fedora an RHEL.

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