Many thanks to everyone who took their precious time to patiently fill me !!

- Anatoly

Patrick wrote on 06/26/2009 01:48 PM:
> 2009/6/26 Klaus Steinberger <klaus.steinberger at physik.uni-muenchen.de>:
>   
>> Troy and Connie are doing a very good job in recompiling the sources from
>> RHEL and integrating them into the SL distribution, but besides the
>> necessary changes (which Redhat requires to change) and integration of HEP
>> Community specific things (like AFS and so on) they just use the Source
>> RPM's from Redhat. Please don't forget that two people can't test every
>> piece in the distribution, they just can do the best they can do.
>> And they do a really good job, and are definitly not responsible for the
>> bugs Redhat let slip through.
>>     
>
> And they surely do a great job at it. Although SL is based on the
> sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there are additional packages
> which makes SL great for tweaking (where CentOS doesn't change
> anything because they want to be 100% binary equal to RHEL).
>
> No matter what you use, RHEL, SL, CentOS and all RHEL clones, you are
> always some steps behind on current software/packages/etc. (because it
> isn't beelding edge technology). For example, my own system has a
> built in 10-100-1000 networkcard which isn't supported by RHEL, SL,
> CentOS, etc. Only by using Fedora (or a Fedora based distro like BLAG)
> I can get it to work.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>