I meant between Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS. The only reason I put RHEL and CentOS together is because CentOS is pretty much RHEL without the name breaking copyrights. Thanks, Dan Lund It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. -Niccolo Machiavelli On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 16:42 -0700, Dan Lund wrote: >> if I may be so ignorant to ask, what is the plus side versus RHEL/CentOS? > ---- > RHEL describes itself as Enterprise suitable Linux which is tested and > supported and sold as a computer entitlement to installation, updates > and SLA (service level agreement). > > It is also referred to as 'stable' and attempts to provide an extended > life cycle (8 years per release). > > CentOS uses the RHEL source and rebuilds on their own hardware and is > without SLA (hence free) but in essence is assumed to be binary > compatible (at least as far as possible). > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss