Red Hat Enterprise Linux software sources?

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

I also use CentOS almost exclusively at work, and the exclusions occur
when customers specifically request Debian, SuSe, Slackware, etc.  There
are a few mirrors for CentOS local to the valley such as:

http://mirrors.easynews.com//linux/centos/
http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/

With CentOS, you have your 'yum', like Fedora Core, to update your
systems, and repositories usually are along the lines of 'base',
'updates', 'CentOS Plus' (for slightly more cutting edge packages such
as PHP5), and you can add your own such as Dag (1) & Dries (2), which
now are (... are attempting to merge as ...) part of RPMForge.

(1) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
(2) http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/
(3) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#A1

I've used CentOS for over a year in the enterprise field, and it's as
solid as RHEL, and never have I had an issue installing software via RPM
onto a CentOS system that was made specifically for RHEL.

</two cents>

Kind Regards,

  Tony E.




Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Alan Dayley wrote:
>> An interesting thought:  Since CentOS is a 99.99% clone of RHEL would
>> CentOS repositories be a good install source for RHEL?  Don't know but I
>> may try it.
> 
> I believe they are.  CentOS has several levels of repositories.  The
> lowest levels have packages that are completely compatible with RHEL.
> To get "other" packages, you have to use another repository.
> 
> Mind you, I haven't actually tried this... but when I was installing
> CentOS on a server, I distinctly remember that there was a difference.
> 
> Kurt
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