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[Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

Subject: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:47:23 -0400
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On 7/23/2012 1:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote:
> They don't really leave much room for questions :)

Just two.  For now.

1. Do you want to give Oracle the market share? :)

2. How badly does it break Scientific Linux?  CentOS and Oracle Linux 
aim for binary compatibility with RHEL.  SL does not, and mixing EL 
packages with SL causes conflicts.

-- 
Rich P.

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