CentOS actually has 2 extended repositories:<div><br></div><div>1) CentosPlus is disabled by default, and contains upgrades to packages that are part of the base install but have not been shipped in RHEL.</div><div><br></div>
<div>2) CentosExtras is for packages that don't exist in the official RedHat repositories, and is ENABLED BY DEFAULT. Normally this would not be a bad thing, but you will probably want to limit yourself (for purposes of certification) to tools that are available on RHEL. In that case, you will need to disable this repository manually.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Avery <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ditto what everyone else is saying. We use RHEL for commercial<br>
purposes here and I have a CentOS workstation and don't see enough<br>
differences to matter. For your purposes CentOS is the way to go.<br>
<br>
CentOS on the other hand is a binary compile of RHEL sources as stated<br>
by others.<br>
<br>
However, others are incorrect in saying Fedora is a RHEL wannabe.<br>
Fedora is a bleeding edge distro and its development is supported by<br>
RedHat. Most things that end up in RHEL originally were tested in<br>
Fedora but not everything that was put in Fedora ends up in RHEL. It's<br>
a good OS if you like trying the latest greatest but not one you'd want<br>
to use in Production unless you like the idea of having to upgrade a<br>
couple of times a year.<br>
<br>
All 3 have similarities because of the relationship (mainly in admin<br>
tools) but RHEL and CentOS of the same version are the closest to each<br>
other. Fedora versions are released much more frequently so where both<br>
RHEL and CentOS are currently up to release 5.4 Fedora is up to Release<br>
12.<br>
<br>
On a final note: CentOS has an extended repository available. If you<br>
use that then you'll be different from RHEL so for your purposes you<br>
shouldn't - just use the default CentOS repositories.<br>
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On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 15:07 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:<br>
> Eh? I find them to be nearly identical.<br>
<br>
RHEL includes some pieces which can not be redistributed. If you're not<br>
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> - CentOS is basically RHL with all the RedHat stuff stripped<br>
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