[CS-FSLUG] Red Hat turns on Oracle and other Red Hat Linux clone-makers

l4c l4c at thelinuxlink.net
Fri Mar 18 07:10:30 CDT 2011


On 03/18/2011 07:30 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:18:25 -0500, Fred A. Miller
> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>> Red Hat has decided it’s no going to be Mr. Nice Linux anymore for Red
>> Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone makers such as Oracle and CentOS .
>
> For those who haven't been following this story since it came out two
> weeks ago, CentOS and Scientific Linux are unaffected by this move. They
> both strive for cloning completely what comes from Red Hat, then adding
> their own touches on top. It's specifically aimed at Oracle, which tends
> to tinker more with internal specifics of the kernel.
>

Yes, what Ed said :)  It may *look* like CentOS is affected, but their 
current lag is their own doing.  Scientific Linux has a very nice v6 out 
right now.  I encourage you to try it :)

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