Will McDonald wrote:
On 22/02/06, Fajar Priyanto fajarpri@cbn.net.id wrote:
Hi all, I hope I'm not starting a flame war. I'm installing Centos 4.2 for a mail server. I've been experimenting with, Centos before, and now wanting to put it into a real action as mail server.
Can someone pls tell me the up and down between Centos and FC? I'm familiar with FC4 and some things that I like from it:
- The available packages are abundant. Very easy to find packages for FC4.
- The user list is very active and friendly too.
The bottom line is if you want a workstation with the latest of most things use Fedora, if you want a stable long life (but still able to do every task) server use Centos. RHEL (Centos) will patch a broken package, Fedora will replace it with the latest version (that fixes the break). For example I run a mirror server that distributes both Centos and Fedora (remotely), it runs Centos as it does the job flawlessly. If it ran Fedora I would have to always worry about applying updates as they make break it and seeing as it is 500Km away that would be a real pain.