On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 15:29 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
FC3 is very stable, very close to RHEL4, and many packages in RHEL4 are bit-for-bit at the executable level identical to the FC3 package. Check for yourself.
Yes. And Fedora Core 1 was largely a maturity of Red Hat Linux 9, which was already a majority of Red Hat Linux 8. Because the 2-2-2 and 6-6-6 model is still there.
Now I wish Red Hat would make Fedora Core 4 an even more mature version of the FC2-3 series. But they are moving forward with GCC 4.0. I can understand that, given there was a lot of time between FC3 and RHEL4's release, so FC3 and RHEL4 are about as mature as they can get.
A lot of any "immaturity" in FC3/RHEL is really more about Linux 2.6 (including LVM2, CIPE, etc...). And as Linux 2.6 matures, so will anything based on it. After all, it took a long time for Linux 2.4 to mature in the RHL7.x series too, before becoming quite solid in FC1/RHEL3.
If you don't want to deal with Linux 2.6 yet, then stick with FC1 or RHEL3, and wait on FC5/RHEL5.