[vox-tech] Red Hat rpms in CentOs

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Oct 23 14:28:01 PDT 2008


Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_dev at wildintellect.com):

> Could someone comment on the compatibility between Red Hat and CentOs.
> Would an rpm from some 3rd party, like Oracle work for CentOS.
> Might it work?

By saying "like Oracle", you've actually chosen the most finicky possible
example, by far:  Oracle RDBMS's OS dependencies are infamously brittle.
But it'd probably work.  Of course, you'll be doing without vendor
support.


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