On Monday 20 February 2006 19:01, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2006 2:17 am, Nicola -kOoLiNuS- Losito wrote:
Well, maybe IF a CentOS like
CentOS is a leech project. RedHat can't be too happy about it. If people use it proves that they really need RHEL but are either too cheap to pay for it or they don't have the balls to walk up to their boss with a necessity paper. Maybe the company would pay, knowing the advantages, but it has to be properly informed first.
Actually, thats not the main reason for using CentOS. Fedora is bleeding edge Red Hat, CentOS is stable Red Hat. People use CentOS when the want something stable. <rant>What you're saying is the same as saying that all distros are leeching off the Linux kernel, because they don't have the balls to walk up to their boss and say that they should build an OS from scratch. It's Linux. Its open source. ITS FREE, in many aspects other than price.
And basic RHEL is not that expensive ($350/y).
That *is* expensive for some.
CentOS is the Linux equivalent of Windows warez.
I'm glad you have a clue what Linux, the GPL, and the spirit to which they adhere are all about.
Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion, bla bla bla
Yes, an obviously well informed one at that. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find a clue somewhere around here. </rant> Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin