On Thu, 8/14/08, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And that's a very excellent thing.
It's not really my place to answer for CentOS, as I do not want to misrepresent anything. Just to point it out their own page on their web site ... http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=3 "Purpose of CentOS CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform to anyone who wishes to use it. CentOS 2, 3, and 4 are built from publically available open source SRPMS provided by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.). CentOS is designed for people who need an enterprise class OS without the cost or support of the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor." The page is a little dated, because CentOS 5 continues this tradition, per the CentOS project maintainer's own posts. MORE RELEVANT TO LPI'S GOALS ... For the purposes of LPI, given this purpose, we can assume CentOS is striving for "100% binary compatibility" with RHEL. As such, LPI can safely assume anything implemented in RHEL is also the goal of CentOS' implementation. > There are many people and institutions out there that > would like to go with Red Hat but can't right now - > usually for license cost reasons. Centos gives them a > proving ground and an upgrade path to eventually get > there. Which means, despite popular rhetoric, that CentOS does not actually take away from RHEL sales, but actually augments RHEL compatible system units in use. ;) > It's a very nice (and very unique) symbiotic arrangement > that has developed between Centos and RH. I think RH knows > this very well, they just can't say so out loud. Your "think" is a very good one. ;) _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
