Am Fr, den 24.06.2005 schrieb beartooth um 19:02:
I'm on this list because I'm getting near the end of my rope after a good dozen installs, upgrades, and re-installs just since Fedora first came out. It changes too fast for me -- in fine and admirable ways, but I can't keep up. I'll install FC4 when the installation media get here, and that may be it.
Yes, if you are not the enthusiastic Linux user, requesting to have always the latest, biggest, most promising software version - [b]le[a,e]ding edge - then CentOS is certainly the better OS for you.
So, getting back to the real topic, I'm especially interested in matters of stability, if that's the term of art: CentOS is basically a clone of RHEL without the price nor the phone support -- right? I ran boughten RH, and had RHN all those years, and never picked up a phone. RedHat's updates, and help from online, kept it on an even keel.
From my experience CentOS4 is very solid and a good choice for server systems. Updates come in time and for free.
Gretchenfrage : is it looking like an electronically ignorant old retired fart will be able to install CentOS, set each machine to do nightly yum update, and go back to doing what he does, maybe for a year or two at a time? The learning curve at least ought to be minimal, for a RedHat refugee ...
Though I am neither Doc Faust, nor have a relation with Mephistopheles, I am sure you have more pleasure running CentOS in the way you intend than you had from your Fedora experiences so far (knowing some of your postings on the Fedora and the Fedora Legacy Project user lists). The only thing which I generally do not recommend is running automatic nightly yum updates. It is little administration to do updates manually and you always know what happens by watching at yum's activity output.
Alexander