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Free vs. pay versions



On Aug 20, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> There's a RHEL supplemental repo/disc that contains some binary-only
> vendor-provided bits. Red Hat doesn't use these to "build RHEL"
> though. Nor does Red Hat have the source or the rights to redistribute
> it if they did, otherwise, it would be part of the distribution itself
> with sources provided. This sounds like something from the
> supplemental repo.

If I'm not mistaken, some of those are included on the distribution discs.  Specifically binary blob video and WiFi drivers.  If I'm not mistaken, CentOS does not include the same.  Not certain; it's been a while since I checked.

--Rich P.









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