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Im running CentOS, but my rpms all say rhel. Whats up?

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Im running CentOS, but my rpms all say rhel. Whats up?

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CentOS is a clone of RHEL and the two are 100% binary compatible. What that means is that RPM’s created for RHEL work on CentOS and vice versa. CentOS rpm’s even incorporate the rhel into the filenames. Our CentOS rpm repository is actually a symlink to our RHEL repository on the updates server.

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