On Fri, 4/22/16, Simon Walter <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] M$ Linux-frendly To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 22, 2016, 9:28 PM On 04/23/2016 10:54 AM, Go Linux wrote:
> On Fri, 4/22/16, Simon Walter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> What is the reason people use CentOS? It's in the name and Cpanel is >>> evidence. >>> >> >> >> I think that people use Centos to avoid the cost of an expensive support >> contract with Redhat. >> >> > >But still have the cozy feeling that they are using an "enterprise" >product. CentOS = Community enterprise OS. > -------------------------------------------- Because Centos IS Redhat without the paid support ie a "free' community version. Nearly all the hosting companies I've done business with have used Centos. > > Why would you want to use RedHat anyway? > For me it was just a matter of circumstances. Back @2005 the geeks at the local LUG were using it. They had an "installfest" and that's what got put on a hand-me-down machine alongside Winblows 98. Those were blissful days of a sane Gnome2 desktop and a customizable usplash login screen. Ubuntu hadn't arrived yet and Lennart was still in 'diapers' with only sugarplum dreams of Lendows . . . sigh . . . _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
