Subject: Re: [vserver] VServer on Red Hat Host with RH Kernel
From: "John Alberts" <john.m.alberts@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:56:52 -0600
Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:56:52 -0600
Ed,
Oh, I completely agree with you; however, it's an uphill battle here trying
to explain that to the people here that make the decisions.  The main thing
is that their applications are only certified for Red Hat and not any other
OS.  They mainly point out that if you do a 'uname -a' on a RH5 box, you see
a 2.6.18 kernel.  If you do it on a CentOS5 box, you see a 2.6.22 kernel.
I've already argued this point until I'm blue in the face.

John


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>wrote:

> John,
>
> CentOS 5 is almost exactly the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> (CentOS site claims binary compatibility). CentOS5 is also very close
> to Fedora Core 6.
>
> Normally software named EL5 and CentOS5 works on both. Something
> packaged as FC6 usually works with some hacking in general. Because
> anyone can build a package there are no universal truths.
>
> These should help.
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_CentOS
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Fedora
>



-- 
John Alberts


Ed,
Oh, I completely agree with you; however, it's an uphill battle here trying to explain that to the people here that make the decisions.  The main thing is that their applications are only certified for Red Hat and not any other OS.  They mainly point out that if you do a 'uname -a' on a RH5 box, you see a 2.6.18 kernel.  If you do it on a CentOS5 box, you see a 2.6.22 kernel.  I've already argued this point until I'm blue in the face.

John


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com> wrote:
John,

CentOS 5 is almost exactly the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
(CentOS site claims binary compatibility). CentOS5 is also very close
to Fedora Core 6.

Normally software named EL5 and CentOS5 works on both. Something
packaged as FC6 usually works with some hacking in general. Because
anyone can build a package there are no universal truths.

These should help.
http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_CentOS
http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Fedora



--
John Alberts