Daniel Herrington wrote: > All, > > In the thread on CentOS someone indicated that the OS is as close to a free > version of RHEL5 as one can get. My question is, do you have to do anything > special with CentOS to get software that only installs on RHEL5 to install > on CentOS?
Not in my experience. For example, I use electronic design tools from Altera and Xilinx. These tools are only officially supported under RHEL, but they work fine under CentOS. I sometimes describe CentOS as RHEL with the serial numbers filed off. > > We do a lot of testing on 1 RHEL4 vmware image, and I've been on the fence > about paying $350 for an activation for RHEL5 when we don't utilize support > for anything. I don't believe I've updated my RHEL4 image in four years. > Would CentOS be the better way to go? There's certainly no harm in trying. It will only cost you your time. -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
