[wellylug] Thanks for the help

Franck fgd at hush.com
Thu Jan 27 22:23:58 NZDT 2011


Yeah, CentOS is free.
Basically the CentOS guys take the RedHat source packages, replace 
any RedHat logo/word occurence by their own, compile and package.

What apply to RedHat apply to CentOS. You can mix packages from one 
to another but don't if don't know what you're doin'

Franck

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:22:43 +0100 Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> 
wrote:
>On 24/01/11 16:33, John Durham wrote:
>> I found and downloaded the latest copy of Red Hat and just 
>finished
>> printing the manual (a bonus to get both).
>>
>> After a month of reading up on it, how practical will it be to 
>use it to
>> upgrade or replace the CentOS I have installed on the current 
>server?
>>
>> Speculate if you like. I'm in new territory here. Don't want to 
>touch
>> the server until I understand it a lot better.
> >
>CentOS is free isn't it? RedHat costs a fair chunk of moolah.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Cliff
>
>
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