I follow your meaning now. I misunderstood what you meant. (I tend to read things too literally sometimes) Steve Phariss wrote: > I know that Fedora and redhat are related and how, not so sure on the > SuSE genealogy. It is my understanding that OpenSuse is the > "development" version of SuSE in the same way that Fedora is the > "development" version of Redhat. My point being (as has been discussed > in the last few messages) that since this is to be a production > environment, the bleeding edge version is not the best choice. > > Steve Phariss > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Eric Shubert > wrote: > > Steve Phariss wrote: > > The downside to "newer bits" is that they may not be as tested. > > Arguably, a CentOS/RHEL install will have more long term stability. > > Newer is not always better when it comes to getting down to business. > > OpenSuSE is the equivalent to using Fedora correct? > > No, Fedora is related to RedHat. Fedora is community driven and bleeding > edge, from which RedHat is derived. CentOS is a rebranded (from sources) > RedHat. People will commonly refer to CentOS systems as being RHEL > (which they are for the most part). > > OpenSuSE uses rpms, and it too has an Enterprise version, but that's > about all that it has in common with Fedora/RedHat/CentOS. > > > a test/dev > > distribution for the main distro... > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss