Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Galitz
> > CentOS support, so we don't impact RH's business. Oracle on the > > other hand DOES offer paid support, which impacts RH's business, and > > I don't see any substantive attempts by oracle to give anything back > > to the community at large. > Just to be fair to Oracle on this count, they do gi

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day > 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 a

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread David G . Miller
Larry Vaden writes: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day 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

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day 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 woul

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day 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 woul

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/23/2010 01:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> Price ? > >OEL 5.4 is freely downloadable so i'm guessing that's not it. either you or I are missing something here. downloadable != maintainable. besides Oracle's offering does not get the vendor endorsement that CentOS does mostly due to

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day 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 woul

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 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 di

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Robert P. J. Day 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? > > the