On 11/15/2011 01:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Currently, CentOS build system should be in much better shape and we will see how it will do for coming 6.2 point release (already in beta).
Thanks very much for that. I found your account most interesting and informative.
I guess one question that I've never seen raised is if there has ever been a suggestion that Centos and SL should combine, or at least work together? They seem to have exactly the same aim.
I wonder why SL was set up, rather than offering to help the CentOS team?
SL does betas and CentOS does not for example. I think the way both projects chose to operate is simply incompatible.
I saw statistics - I don't remember where - saying that CentOS had 30% of the Linux market, which I found very surprising, though also satsifying (to me). SL had a tiny share. (I remember now, it was someone complaining that Fedora's share was slipping badly.)
Fedora is basically an incubator for new technologies and as such not really an attractive system to install for end-users. If you deal with servers you probably go with CentOS, SL, Debian, etc. and if you want a desktop you probably use Ubuntu.
I belong to what may be the silent majority who don't really care if CentOS is absolutely up-to-date. (As far as I can see, none of the changes in CentOS-6.1 would make the slightest difference to me. I run CentOS on 3 home servers, and Fedora on my laptops.)
I was very struck by the ease with which I upgraded to CentOS-6, compared with the nightmare (now hopefully over) upgrading from Fedora-15 to Fedora-16. It reminded me why I would never run Fedora on a server.
I tend to skip one Fedora release and then do a a plain reinstall and copy my old data I need over. Fedora upgrades always sound rather messy.
Regards, Dennis