On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle > enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm > curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be > any differences that would be worth caring about?
Unless Oracle has changed their policy in the last two years or so, the release cycle for critical patches (e.g., security fixes) is _very_ different. Quarterly for Oracle, days for CentOS. Again, observations are from a couple of years ago, but should be verifiable. See a recent email below the sig. kind regards/ldv October 20th, 2009 Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2009 Dear Oracle customer, The Critical Patch Update for October 2009 was released on October 20, 2009. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. <snip> ... </snip> The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are: January 12, 2010 April 13, 2010 July 13, 2010 October 12, 2010 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
