starting with Fedora, moving to RHEL

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

There aren't very many differences between CentOS and RHEL except for RedHat custom administration scripts (system-config-*).  Instead of up2date, there is "yum".  For all purposes, it IS RHEL, minus the support contracts.  Where I work, we use CentOS on 85% of our systems, the remaining 15% or so are windows or BSD, so about 1500 systems or so.  Turn that into RHEL licenses and it is very expensive.

Tony E / Jaraeth
Phoenix Wing

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
Sent: January 14, 2009 12:12 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: starting with Fedora, moving to RHEL

 well for starters, RHELL is the corporate policy- much to my dismay.
Secondly, I understand that CentOS and RHEL are slightly different.
Wouldn't you think Fedora is a better place to start?  -jmz

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Tony E - Jaraeth
<jaraeth at phoenixwing.com> wrote:
> If you want to test things without paying for RHEL licensing, get CentOS(org)  It's basically RHEL, minus the cost.  Test, and if it works there, it'll work on RHEL.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Tony E / Jaraeth
> Phoenix Wing
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> Sent: January 13, 2009 10:08 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Re: starting with Fedora, moving to RHEL
>
> nope - no experience at all with EC2.
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:27 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> Craig,
>>
>>    thanks for the tips, I want to use Amazon EC2, but the company
>> standard is RHEL (no free AMIs for RHEL).  They have a program for EC2
>> + RHEL, but I want to make absolute sure we need it first.  Ever use
>> it?
>>
>>  -jmz
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:10 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >>   has anyone built a system using Fedora, but then redeployed it to
>> >> RHEL?  Anything I should be aware of?
>> > ----
>> > no - in some instances it may be possible but it doesn't make sense.
>> > RHEL is supported but they would never support this.
>> >
>> > RHEL 4 was built from packages from the Fedora Core 3 era and RHEL 5 was
>> > built from packages from the Fedora Core 6 era but if you have a newer
>> > Fedora than FC6 - fahgettaboutit
>> >
>> > I could not suggest to whomever was paying for the RHEL Entitlement that
>> > an upgrade/migration from Fedora was reasonable, supported or a good
>> > idea.
>> >
>> > Craig
>> >
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