On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:05 pm, Will McDonald wrote:
The main advantage to running an EL distribution like CentOS is the release cycle.
FC4 will be EOL in, what, about a year after its release? That means no more official updates apart from those provided by Fedora Legacy for as long as they choose to support it.
Updates for CentOS 4 should be available for another 5 years or something like that. This allows you to manage servers without having to constantly rebuild them in a running-to-keep-up fashion, or leaving them to rot unmaintained and potentially insecure. Which is what will can if you run FC on more than a handful of servers.
CentOS might not have quite the abundance of packages FC has but for a server you generally don't need the latest and greatest of everything. Servers are there to do a job, as long as they accomplish this reliably and securely that's all you need.
If you absolutely need package X then between RPMForge, CentOS Extras/Plus/Test and Jpackage you should be pretty much covered. Failing that, grab the SRPM for FC3/4 and try rebuilding for CentOS.
Thank you very much Will, It's very nice to know the fact that you mention.
By the way, Can I take a screenshot during installation? I'm setting up RAID-1 and LVM and I'm planning to make a tutorial about it. Thank again,