Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

In my experience software compiled for RHEL "just work" with Centos and I don't remember any case where it didn't. I have however heard whisperings on a grapevine that RH may want to try and make future versions of Centos slightly incompatible with RHEL but these are probably just whisperings. If

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2015 09:17 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: > In my experience software compiled for RHEL "just work" with Centos > and I don't remember any case where it didn't. I have however heard > whisperings on a grapevine that RH may want to try and make

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Peter > > Anyways, the vendor is also free to support > whatever OS they want, and you're free to choose not to use their > software. Except when you're not. Because for whatever reason, the choice of software

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Thanks for the explanation. Of course what I want to do is evaluate centos fitness for our purposes, without the effort of evaluating all the changelogs, and I think this answer is the best

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Peter > > You can see better details of what has been changed by looking at the > changelog for a particular package. CentOS changes will be at the top > of the changelog, so again using httpd as an example: >

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Devin Reade > > The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you can > probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the same on > RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases),

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/15 15:17, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote: >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Devin Reade >> >> The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you >> can probably expect the

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

On 11/11/2015 09:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote: > At work, we use some commercial software, that names RHEL6 as a > supported OS, but not Centos6. I would like to know the difference > between Centos and RHEL, in order to claim (or not) that we can > support our users on Centos instead

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

--On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 12:53:20 PM -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: That depends on what you mean by "support." It's almost certainly possible to run the binaries on CentOS, but if you need any technical support from the vendor of that application, they might

[CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

At work, we use some commercial software, that names RHEL6 as a supported OS, but not Centos6. I would like to know the difference between Centos and RHEL, in order to claim (or not) that we can support our users on Centos instead of RHEL. I see the release notes, that say "Packages modified

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

On 11/10/2015 02:03 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote: > At work, we use some commercial software, that names RHEL6 as a supported OS, > but not Centos6. I would like to know the difference between Centos and RHEL, > in order to claim (or not) that we can support our users on Centos instead

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

On 11/10/2015 12:03 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote: At work, we use some commercial software, that names RHEL6 as a supported OS, but not Centos6. I would like to know the difference between Centos and RHEL, in order to claim (or not) that we can support our users on Centos instead of