On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Craig White wrote: >> However, I'm rather tired of the continual pressure >> applied by them to "upgrade" to the next "level". >> I'd like a stable platform which doesn't shift around >> underneath my development. I'm more interested in >> Linux as a tool, than as an object of interest in >> and of itself. I'm more interested in using it than >> in getting it to work. That would be CentOS, IMHO. I went through this this weekend. I tried Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, etc. on a new laptop I bought for doing development out and about. > That is the stated agenda for Fedora. Still, for my desktop, I am > running Fedora...but not for servers. > > Craig Yeah, I just can't do Fedora. Partly because of the upgrade cycle, and partly because of stability issues, beta software, etc. I tried it this weekend. I even tried Ubuntu (which is better IMHO), but eventually my laptop got slapped with CentOS and... what do you know... CentOS is a fine laptop OS as long as you don't need stuff like hibernation. Preston