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. -- -Eric 'shubes' 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 > 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