[PLUG] RHEL 5

alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Jun 5 16:13:52 UTC 2007


On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Sean Whitney wrote:

> My company is currently deploying our product for a customer who has
> chosen RHEL5 as their platform.  I haven't been a regular RH user for
> several years now.
>
> I would like to set up a similar box at work to do some testing on..
>
> What Linux distribution is most like RHEL5, without having to pay for RHEL5?
>
> Fedora 7?
> CentOS 5?

CentOS 5 is RHEL 5 built from Redhat RPMs and with the trademarked bits 
stripped out.

It is as close as you are going to get without a "real" copy of RHEL 5.

-- 
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
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                                   - Alan Cox



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