[PLUG] Linux distro recommendation as a replacement for SuSE

[Wil Cooley]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 21:56 -0800, MJang wrote:

> This becomes an even more interesting discussion in light of the bruhaha
> around Oracle Linux, which is also a "rebuild" like CentOS. As the
> CentOS developers freely admit, the tools they use to rebuild aren't the
> same as the tools used by Red Hat, and this may affect compatibility /
> certifiability - in terms of support for specialized software (not any
> LPI/RHCE sort of tests).

Interestingly enough Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux" seems to have been
built from CentOS's packages and not directly from Red Hat's.  I'm not
sure which tools you mean differ, but I'm pretty sure where it
counts--gcc, binutils--are the same versions.  I'm sure Red Hat a
considerable amount of infrastructure that goes into automating the
building and testing which CentOS doesn't have (or has different).  At
any rate, at my previous job we did a lot of work with Oracle and
WebLogic (and lots of other Java crap) running on CentOS and RHEL and
found no appreciable differences.  (Well, the differences were I didn't
have to wait for management to order my entitlements for CentOS before I
could do on-line post-installation.  These days, of course, I've
discovered that Yam can be used even to mirror from RHN, which I wish
I'd had or known about then.)

> But this drifts away from the topic. Remember, most all of SUSE is GPL,
> and built from the same source code as Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, etc. So
> if Microsoft has agreed to not sue Novell, then they have no basis for
> sueing Red Hat, etc. over the same code.

I have heard so much back and forth about the whole matter and I haven't
bothered to spend any time reading about it, so I have no idea what all
the fuss is about.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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