In my recent experience, no.  There were problems with entering text in tksurfer/tkmedit when running on the pre-installed RHEL that went away when CentOS was installed later.



> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:42:57 -0400
> From: raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> To: dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Red Hat vs. CentOs
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> Yes, it should be almost no different.
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to make sure that a Dell desktop with pre-installed RHEL would
> > work seamlessly with Freesurfer, equivalent to CentOS. Is this correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dahlia.
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