Next question is, does anyone know of a SUSE SLES comparable/ On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
