Pretty much if RHEL does it, CentOS does it, so hardware compatibility and service level is equal. Okay, so Ubuntu sounds like it was started as a desktop distribution geared towards eye candy. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate it. 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 5:40 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:33 -0700, Dan Lund wrote: >> 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. > ---- > and without the hardware compatibility guarantees and the service level > agreements. > > Ubuntu server is trying to carve out a piece of the "Enterprise" Linux > which Red Hat dominates and SuSE/Novell has been the only other player. > > Ubuntu server has a longer support window than normal Ubuntu and service > level agreements are indeed available for Ubuntu server. Where RHEL (and > possibly CentOS) have big advantages is support for commercial software > like Symantec Anti-Virus, BrightStor ArcServe, Oracle, Dell OMSA, etc. > > 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