Am Samstag, 10. September 2005 23:23 schrieb Anders Johansson:
On Saturday 10 September 2005 22:38, Marcel Volz wrote:
But there is CentOS or Whitebox Linux. You get all OpenSource Packages from RedHat Enterprise Linux and Security Updates and Bugfixes for 5 years. All Hardware or Software that is known to work with RHEL, also work with CentOS. My wish is, to have the same with SUSE.
centos and whitebox are not related to red hat. They are doing what they are doing without any cooperation from red hat at all. In fact, their business plan is to take as many customers away from red hat as they can.
Tell me again why you expect Novell to help you with a similar business plan against SLES?
I disagree with you. They are related, but not officially supported from RedHat. From the CentOS Website: "CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible." There are many yum-repositories with additional rpm's that are not included in the offical RHEL. There also some derived distributions like Scientific Linux for universities or students that aim at a particular group of users. I think it would be nice to have some additional software repositories for SLES or some specialised distros with some special functionality. One think that comes in my mind is a SLES with additional Asterisk rpms, just like "Asterisk at home". -- Marcel Volz