Ron Blizzard <rb4centos@...> writes:
I hadn't logged into Fedora for about ten days -- which was the last time I updated it. I updated it again today and it already had 315 Megs of updates. I think Fedora is a good distribution, but I don't think I would want that kind of upkeep traffic. (Which is one of the reasons I use CentOS.)
I think it's interesting that Ubuntu 9.04 hasn't gone to Firefox 3.5.x. Its newest upgrade installed Firefox 3.0.13.
I've been playing with Fedora and Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop since this past Spring when I took a couple of network security classes at the local community college. Seemed like almost every tool took a more recent version of something than is currently shipping with CentOS. I don't really like the instability and high change rate with Fedora but I got really tired of needing to build several libraries as well as the application under /usr/local when the same application would cleanly build or install under FC or Ubuntu.
SIGH. The choice is always bleeding edge (and take your lumps) or stability but missing the most recent versions. I'm looking at a career change (or mid-life crisis) with the network security classes. I'm not finding that I enjoy software development (what I've been doing since 1980) the way I did back when.
Cheers, Dave