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Re:Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name by streptomycin on Friday March 23, 2012 @09:36PM (#3748153)
There's not dozens of RHEL clones. There is CentOS, but it's had its problems lately and Scientific Linux predates it.

If you're suggesting that other random free distros are suitable when one is looking at RHEL or an RHEL clone... well, that's rather silly.

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Re:Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name by javert on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:56PM (#3748436)
If you're suggesting that other random free distros are suitable when one is looking at RHEL or an RHEL clone... well, that's rather silly.

Call it silly if you want, but yes, I would like to know the answer to that. I'm being perfectly serious. I've used several Linux distros (though maybe I'm not an expert), and at the end of the day, they all run the same programs.

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Re:Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name by streptomycin on Saturday March 24, 2012 @12:06AM (#3748448)
RHEL is extremely stable and releases are supported for much longer than other Linux distros. Also, some commercial software is designed to work on specific versions of RHEL.
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