> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Yves Dorfsman > > CentOS = RHEL without the licensing nonsense
Um, no. Centos ~= RHEL And it's close enough for many purposes. But I can name half a dozen tools I've tried to install or run, which will run on rhel and not on centos. (At least, not without using a hammer to fit the square peg into the round hole.) The easiest one to name is OMSA and dell drivers/firmware updates. Yes I'm aware they made these things work on centos, particularly on the LiveCD that dell distributes for the sake of firmware updates and so forth. But guess what? They used the hammer on that CD. Just cat /etc/redhat-release and you'll see it says RedHat, not Centos. Also, at one point within the last year, I spent a lot of time digging into the specifics, extracting and expanding the scripts from the Dell driver & firmware update .BIN files... And found they perform essentially biometrics on some standard libraries that it's linked against. Not quite checking for checksums, but checking file size and modification times etc. The only conceivable reason to do this, instead of blindly trusting the /etc/redhat-release file... Is to make the application fail intentionally on RHEL knock-offs such as centos and oracle. Many EDA tools rely on the /etc/redhat-release file. Even if you only have to modify this file, I would say that's using a small hammer. Centos != RHEL. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
