[COLUG] Differences between RHEL and CentOS.

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Tue May 6 20:56:31 EDT 2008


They are basically the same. Older CentOS releases used yum instead of 
up2date, but even RHEL uses yum these days...

You should not expect any issues moving from RHEL to CentOS. Aside from 
RedHat specific stuff (rhn_register and such), it'll work just the same.

David

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?
>
>     -Bill


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