On Fri, 4/22/16, Simon Walter <simon@???> wrote:

Subject: Re: [DNG] M$ Linux-frendly
To: dng@???
Date: Friday, April 22, 2016, 9:28 PM

On 04/23/2016 10:54 AM, Go Linux wrote:

> On Fri, 4/22/16, Simon Walter <simon@???> wrote:
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>>> What is the reason people use CentOS? It's in the name and Cpanel is evidence.
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>> I think that people use Centos to avoid the cost of an expensive support contract with Redhat.
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>But still have the cozy feeling that they are using an "enterprise"
>product. CentOS = Community enterprise OS.
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Because Centos IS Redhat without the paid support ie a "free' community version. Nearly all the hosting companies I've done business with have used Centos.

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> Why would you want to use RedHat anyway?
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For me it was just a matter of circumstances. Back @2005 the geeks at the local LUG were using it. They had an "installfest" and that's what got put on a hand-me-down machine alongside Winblows 98. Those were blissful days of a sane Gnome2 desktop and a customizable usplash login screen. Ubuntu hadn't arrived yet and Lennart was still in 'diapers' with only sugarplum dreams of Lendows . . . sigh . . .