Differences between RHEL (RedHatEnterpriseLinux) and CentOS (3)

1. differences between RHEL and CentOS in your eyes: CentOSisanEnterprise-Example 1. differences between RHEL and Centos in your eyes
Original article on the Centos official website:
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. centOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork .) centOS is free.
CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. in turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

To put it simply, Centos is the recompilation and release version of Rhel, and its core code is RHEL. in addition to the cost, other codes are basically the same as those of the upstream RHEL.
RedHat re-compilation system, in addition to Centos, also has Scientific Linux (SL) and Oracle Linux.


2. differences between RHEL/CentOS and other Linux releases
The main difference between different Linux releases is the package manager.
The Red Hat Package Manager is yum (rpm). the package manager of other Linux distributions is related to the release version. for example, Debian (Ubuntu) uses apt-get and Suse uses Yast2, and so on.
In addition, due to the customization of Linux, there are some differences between different releases, configuration files, startup script locations, service management, and included programs.
In general, there are differences between different release versions. when learning, you must first focus on one type, and then adapt to the features of the new system when learning other systems.

3. Talk about your CentOS experience
Centos is very convenient to use, because it is the same as the Red Hat, The Red Hat official website has a lot of documents for reference, and because the Red Hat Linux is widely used, there are problems, it is also easy to find a solution (unless your problem is remote)
In addition, there are many Centos yum sources. in use, you can use domestic sources to increase the speed. if it is mainly used in the LAN or for other reasons, you can also set up a local source by yourself.

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