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rPath Spurs Operating System Evolution with Ubuntu, CentOS Support

rPath Spurs Operating System Evolution with Ubuntu, CentOS Support

Posted Nov 23, 2008 17:59 UTC (Sun) by tuna (guest, #44480)
Parent article: rPath Spurs Operating System Evolution with Ubuntu, CentOS Support

They mention CentOS, but not Redhat. What could be the reason for not supporting RHEL when supporting CentOS?


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rPath Spurs Operating System Evolution with Ubuntu, CentOS Support

Posted Nov 24, 2008 14:58 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

licensing costs.

rPath creates system images for you. if they created RHEL images they would need to deal with the licensing issues, by just doing CentOS they don't.

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