David Sommerseth wrote:
On 17/12/10 18:24, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 01:11:49AM +0800, Guenther Boelter wrote:
On 12/18/2010 01:04 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Fedora14 on all machines, including my wife's -- and I'm the nearest (distant) thing there is to tech support.
What's wrong with Fedora in that case, what do you think is the benefit of using CentOS instead?
Fedora will break things. They're still, in many ways, figuring out
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I so often hear that Fedora breaks things. I've been running F-11 and F-12 on a server as KVM host, without issues. I've been using F8-F13 on several computers (3 laptops and a workstation), and I can't really say it has broken anything on my setups. It might be I'm not using it
<snip> I upgraded a workstation that we do offline backups on to FC 13, from FC 10. I *H*A*T*E*D*!!! FC13. Things do *not* work right. I had to remove gnome, because it was hosed - you couldn't log in in runlevel 5, got a vertical bar a couple of pixels wide instead of a login pane. It crashed, every other week it seemed, and yes, I was doing updates. FC14 *seems* to be a bit more stable, though right now, I'm fighting to try to get ssh-agent working correctly on it - just did a full update, and now it starts it on login... but doesn't stop it on logout, and doesn't pass the environment variables.
*bleah*
In '06, when I was going to upgrade from Redhat 9 (not RHEL, shrike), it was SuSE or Ubuntu, wound up with SuSE. When I was ready to go up from openSuSE 10.3, I went to CentOS. I want a solid system at home - I do enough admin work at work, I don't want to be debugging the o/s at home. The my opinion, and the opinion of a number of folks I personally know (including ESR, btw) of fedora is that it's bleeding edge, not leading edge.
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