On Thursday 06 April 2006 02:14, Mark Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:29:08AM +0100, Lars Hecking stated:
> > Is CentOS just a repackages RHEL,
>> Yes minus the redhat-* packages, however I believe there are cent-os
> equivalents.
>> > or is there added value?
>> No.
>> > Additional packages?
>> No - apart fromthe ones mentioned above.
>
Not strictly true. The centosplus and extras yum repos include a more
full-featured kernel, and a few other bits and pieces
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/4.3/centosplus/i386/RPMS/http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/4.3/extras/SRPMS/
They're not enabled by default because once you go that route,
you're breaking strict redhat correspondence.
Two other repos most centos users hit are
dag.wieers / freshrpms /etc. (now called "rpmforge" *) and jpackage.
* I hate all the ...forge names....
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