It is normally quite easy to mix packages from similar distros. I would recommend using a CentOS install but adding packages from Fedora as required. There will come a time when the Fedora packages have too many core dependencies but if you want to run latest and greatest you always have that problem. Tracking updates can become a problem but again, if you were worried about staying stable and secure then you would not be using Fedora anyway. (Indeed I think CentOS-4 is still too new). I guess it also depends how many machines you are looking after. I detest having to make changes on one specific machine because we have lots of CentOS boxes and doing things individually is not feasible. John. Hardy Beltran Monasterios wrote: > El jue, 28-04-2005 a las 15:42 -0500, Steve Bergman escribió: > >>Apologies if this ends up a dup, but there seems to have been a problem >>with my original subscription. >> >>[ snip ] >> >>On the positive side, looking at the errata, it looks as though CentOS >>has drastically fewer notices than Fedora, and I assume that is because >>there really are more problems (security of otherwise) shaken out during >>testing. >> >>Obviously, not being forced to upgrade due to withdrawal of support with >>regards to security patches every 1.5 years is a plus. >> >>So I welcome comments. If I switch my clients from Fedora to CentOS, >>they don't have the latest and greatest (and, for example, I need >>OpenOffice 2.0 ASAP for one of my clients due to it's Access-like >>interface to PostgreSQL), but how much advantage am I really looking at >>with regards to stability? >> >>i.e. I know all the reasons that CentOS *should* be more rock solid >>stable. But is there a noticeable difference in reality? >> > > It depedens what do you want to do, what do you need. There is no distro > for all tasks. > > In my particular case I prefer to use CentOS in the side server for > their stability and more importan for me, the long support that this > Enterprise class distro offer (by RH promess). > > For my clients wich uses Linux in the side server my recomendations are > the same. And by example I have a customer wich develops applications > with PHP/Postgress/MySQL they can't afford the costly effort to upgrade > his development/production/test servers and the worst case test his > application with the new version of PHP and MySQL which we see in Fedora > in almost each release. For them the "version stability" is a very > critical issue. > > But I tink that CentOS is not very useful in the desktop side, where we > need each time use recent version of the applications. I think in the > desktop side is not much important "version estability/freeze". > > My self I use Debian for my desktop and CentOS for my servers. With > Debian always can I get the newer "killer app" for Gnome. > > > >>Thanks For Any Input. >> >>Sincerely, >>Steve Bergman >> > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin