[COLUG] Differences between RHEL and CentOS.

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, William Yang wrote:

> I'm doing a little research and I know there are CentOS people around 
> here....
>
> What are some of the actual differences between RHEL and CentOS (I understand 
> the license and cost differences)?  I know it's supposed to be binary 
> compatible, but I'm thinking more from an administration standpoint how might 
> things differ?

The Red Hat central administative tool (closed 
specifications and source), usually used webbishly, and 
locally with the 'up2date' client, is not available.

Centos adds yum at 2.1, 3, and 4 releases, which Red Hat did 
not have.

Other than that, there are no administration differences

-- Russ herrold