[clug-talk] Centos

[Curtis Rempel]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:18, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> Anyone ever tried it? Give me the good the bad and the ugly - would you
> bother downloading it?

It's the most popular rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux minus the 
trademarked logos etc.  Updates are via yum as opposed to Red Hat Network 
(fee based subscription).  Same updates as RHEL as Red Hat publishes the 
source for fixes which end up in the CentOS yum repos.

Like RHEL, it's meant for stability and doesn't have the latest greatest 
bleeding edge stuff.  Unlike Fedora, it also has a longer release cycle.  If 
those things appeal to you, it's a pretty decent server.  I'd choose 
something else personally for a desktop though.

An article and related links on Linuxtoday this morning might be useful to 
you:

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006050201026OSHLRH


Cheers,
Curtis

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