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> 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'
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