Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 24, 2004 12:47 AM
The parent poster is incorrect. CentOS and WBEL are essentially the same. Both projects expunge trademarked and copyright materials as required by the RHEL license. Then rebuild the RH supplied SRC.rpm's. CentOS is not a value added RHEL clone, nor value shorted clone.
...Its main flaw was the lack of some essential software packages. All in all, CentOS makes for a good server OS, and with some work...
While missing in the article these comments CLEARLY apply to RHEL as well as CentOS. However, the author does not make it clear IMHO.
The real difference is that CentOS gets updates out in a timely fashion, is a community in a more accurate sense of the word, and generally accepts feedback and assistance from the community instead of ignoring the community.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.dn
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Re:Better than WhiteBox Linux?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 24, 2004 12:47 AMWhile missing in the article these comments CLEARLY apply to RHEL as well as CentOS. However, the author does not make it clear IMHO.
The real difference is that CentOS gets updates out in a timely fashion, is a community in a more accurate sense of the word, and generally accepts feedback and assistance from the community instead of ignoring the community.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.dn
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