On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 09:00AM, dries <dries@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Quoting Dave Gutteridge <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> >> I was unable to resolve my problems in reading DVD drives in >> Fedora >> 4. So, I decided to switch to another distribution. I saw on one site >> >> that the three distros being nominated for best distribution by >> user's >> vote were Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu, but the >> installer kept failing. So I went to CentOS. >> Anyway, long story short, CentOS looks and feels just like >> Fedora, >> and it reads all my DVD drives normally, so I think I could be happy >> >> with it. >> But... >> When I tried to install Xine, using yum, it said it could not >> find >> it. And then I went looking for an RPM for Xine, and they're all for >> Red >> Hat or Fedora. I tried installing an RPM for Fedora anyway, reasoning >> >> that maybe they were the same in more than just looks, but no dice. >> As I looked around the net, it seems that applications all seem >> to >> have specific builds for Red Hat, Fedora, a couple of Debian >> builds... >> but no CentOS. Going by the amount of available information and >> support, >> Fedora is the primary Linux distribution, and CentOS hardly even >> exists. >> Can't I have it all? Stability, the ability to read my DVD >> drives, >> *and* a variety of applications? >> Further, why is everything being built for Fedora if it's some >> kind >> of experimental build not ideal for consumer use (as was explained to >> me >> on this very list)? >> >> What's the deal here? > >In short: you need to add the apt/smart/yum/.. lines of rpm repositories >for Red Hat Enterprise Linux because CentOS is compatible with RHEL. > >The normal binary version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux can't be >downloaded freely but the source rpms are available because it's all >open source. CentOS is made of these source rpms, so it's almost exactly >the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So rpms for Red Hat Enterprise >Linux work very well on CentOS. Of course some source rpms are changed >to remove the trademarks of Red Hat and you don't have support from Red >Hat anymore. > >kind regards, >Dries > > Hi, I have a very naive question. If Red Hat and CentOS are virtually the same, why were Dave's DVD drive issues resolved in CentOS, but not in Red Hat? Thanks, Paul
