On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Fedora has the advantage to a RHEL/CentOS user of having the same install/admin tools. But if you are turning the box over to someone else, Ubuntu makes much more of an effort to be user friendly. And they haven't been quite so bad as Fedora about refusing to admit that proprietary code exists.
I set my brother up with CentOS 5.3 because, since I'm the one who is going to maintain it, it might as well be something I understand and like. He and his family seem to get along fine with it. When I go over, I usually just run a quick update and make sure everything is working up to snuff. Since he has VirtualBox on it, I also maintain that -- mostly by rebuilding its kernel when the CentOS kernel is updated.
(Not that I don't think that there are a lot of good Linux distributions out there.)