[ILUG] RHEL clones

[Gareth 'bigbro' Eason]

Lars Hecking wrote:
>  Hi all,
> 
>  Has anyone ever come across a situation, anecdotical or otherwise, where
>  commerical software, or software available binary only, that works on RHEL
>  does not work on a RHEL clone like CentOS with otherwise identical parameters
>  (OS revision, package list, patch level, hardware etc.).
> 
>  RHEL and clones are supposed to be fully binary compatible, but where is
>  the proof?
> 
>  I'm trying to assess the likelyhood of a software vendor refusing support 
>  on the grounds that RHEL clones are not on their supported OS list.
[snip]

	Oracle (9i) is one example I've come across of where they refuse (or at 
least, have refused in the past) support for a non-RHEL solution. I have 
used it on CentOS, and had to slightly customise the installation 
scripts so that they were fooled into thinking they were being run on a 
genuine RHEL box. The checking was mostly string matching, IIRC so it 
really wasn't a problem - and Oracle worked excellently on CentOS, once 
it was installed :-)

	Hope that helps.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar