Good point JD. I always try to steer people away from Fedora for servers
in general, especially production servers.
Fedora as a desktop is entirely different, although personally I
appreciate more stability there as well. My desktop at the moment is
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. A new LTS desktop version is due in a couple months,
but I've enjoyed a reliable working environment for nearly 2 years now.
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JD Austin wrote:
> The big difference between Fedora and Centos other than Centos lagging
> behind Fedora is that Centos is a server distribution and the repository
> will be around for 10 years.
>
> I've been burned a couple of times when I inherited unmaintained systems
> built on desktop distributions (in my case Ubuntu) where there
> repositories were long gone.
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> 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
> >
>
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