On 6/11/07, arnuld <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> hello to all,
>
> i am a newbie to Scientific Linux. for my project work i need to have
> RHEL. so i searched Google for Open alternatives and found 2 of my
> choice:  CentOS and Scientific Linux. i liked Scientific Linux, may be
> because of my childhood love of Nuclear Physics and Astronomy :-)
>

It depends. Are you trolling both the CentOS and Scientific Linux
mailling lists or are you looking for definitive answers.

Both CentOS and Scientific Linux have been built as stringently as
possible to the RHEL binaries. The RHEL binaries are built for
stability of a 7 year lifecycle. The less bugs RHEL has in it the more
value RH and its customers find.  However there will be bugs in RHEL
because the world is not a perfect place. And those bugs will show up
in CentOS and SciLin... they will get fixed in most cases.. but one
has to be able to deal with them and realize that all software is
buggy because the writers of software are buggy.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"