At Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:55:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
<MVNCH> > In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using > RH would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of > binaries to the community that had contributed their code base. But I was > too lazy to do that myself and CentOS lets me stay that way (and at the time, > no one knew how crazy fedora would become...).
Yeah. I played with slackware in the mid-nineties, then went to RH with 4.2. Stayed there until I was ready to leave 9, and I went to SuSE. About a year and a quarter ago, came to CentOS. Much happier. fedora "become" crazy, Mike? The beginning of '06, when I went to SuSE, I already knew that it was bleeding edge, and that wasn't just my opinion, but the opinion of a number of folks I know, whose technical expertise I respect, including some guy who's initials are ESR (his politica are another matter, but that's OT).
*shakes head* I hate fedora (says the guy who just upgraded someone's workstation, and then spent the better part of an hour getting X working....)
Yeah, I too started with slackware, then moved to RH (starting with 4.2) pretty all the way to 9 (managed to skip 8). I install FC2 on an older workstation and things were a bit of a disaster: it refused to believe there was a middle button on the mouse and cdrecord refused to believe there was anything on the two SCSI buses but the scanner -- it failed to detect the system (boot) disk (!), both the internal CD-ROM drive and the external CD-RW drive, not to mention neigher tape drive, the zip drive, and several additional hard drives. Arg -- at that point I installed WBL 3.0 on the workstation and all was good (everything worked properly). I used WBL 3.0, then CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 ever since.
Fedora might be fine as a toy/experimental system, but I'd *never* recomend it for any sort of production system (workstation, desktop, laptop, much less server). I guess Ubuntu might be OK for a newbie's home system, but it is not what *I* am used to. Whatever else one can say, there is a continuity from early RH's distros though CentOS, in terms of system admin (where configuration / admin stuff is and the tools used to deal with configuration and general admin tasks).
mark
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