Comments on: CentOS 5.2 review http://silentcoder.co.za/2008/06/centos-52-review/ A.J. Venter's weblog www.silentcoder.co.za Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: silentcoder http://silentcoder.co.za/2008/06/centos-52-review/comment-page-1/#comment-10864 silentcoder Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:40:20 +0000 http://silentcoder.co.za/silentcoder/?p=326#comment-10864 Hi Daniel, Thanks for the info, I do think you provided some valuable insight. Thanks for the rpmforge link as well, I will definitely be checking it out. Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the info, I do think you provided some valuable insight. Thanks for the rpmforge link as well, I will definitely be checking it out.

]]> By: Daniel http://silentcoder.co.za/2008/06/centos-52-review/comment-page-1/#comment-10863 Daniel Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:28 +0000 http://silentcoder.co.za/silentcoder/?p=326#comment-10863 The reason CentOS is giving Red Hat Enterprise a run for it's money is it's closer than you might realise.. It's essentially a re-compile of the RHEL SRPMs. Nothing more, nothing less. You'll find the latest RHEL has the exact same old anaconda installer, the same hardware support, the same kernel, etc. CentOS won't have any newer kernel until RHEL does, but the flip side is that any doc from or by Red Hat regarding patches, configs, etc. apply equally to CentOS 99.9% of the time. Also, if you're working on RHEL or CentOS a lot, and you find yourself looking for tools, utils and apps that are not part of Red Hat and thus not in the CentOS repos, look no further than the life saving work done mostly by Dag Wieers (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/) and others all easily available through yum via mirrors of RPMForge (https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using). The reason CentOS is giving Red Hat Enterprise a run for it’s money is it’s closer than you might realise.. It’s essentially a re-compile of the RHEL SRPMs. Nothing more, nothing less. You’ll find the latest RHEL has the exact same old anaconda installer, the same hardware support, the same kernel, etc. CentOS won’t have any newer kernel until RHEL does, but the flip side is that any doc from or by Red Hat regarding patches, configs, etc. apply equally to CentOS 99.9% of the time.

Also, if you’re working on RHEL or CentOS a lot, and you find yourself looking for tools, utils and apps that are not part of Red Hat and thus not in the CentOS repos, look no further than the life saving work done mostly by Dag Wieers (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/) and others all easily available through yum via mirrors of RPMForge (https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using).

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