On 7/24/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > > Jim Perrin wrote: > > On 7/24/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I want to compare CentOS to Fedora and other distros on a > >> stability/network-dependance basis. Where should I look for some > >> published > >> statistics on updates? I mean probably megabytes per week (or whichever > >> units, of published updates over time), per distro. > >> Thank you in advance > > > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdf > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/whichlinux/ (CentOS is built from > > the freely available RHEL source rpms, so arguements for RHEL on this > > page also apply to CentOS, except for support and pricetag.) > > I have a number of CentOS machines that have been up 24/7 in datacenter > environments for years and were only rebooted on occasion as a result of > security-related kernel upgrades (which would affect any linux distro). > I can't recall EVER having uptime or network-related issues on ANY live > CentOS server that wasn't the direct result of a hardware failure. It > just works...and works...and works. :) The key is to beat up on any > new hardware in a test environment first to make sure that you don't > have any incompatible hardware bits (which hasn't bitten me often). > > Thank you for your point, on which I wholly agree, but I was taking "stability" as "a measure of velocity in change" of a system's components-- here reflected in a shorter or longer life cycle for each version. Please correct me if I am wrong, I may be misusing the word (I am heading right to Wikipedia in a minute! :) ). We all want CentOS as a server system because of its "stability" which -at least for me- means few, controlled changes over an extended lifetime. As to the network-dependance problem, I was thinking of the "gee, I will really need a bandwidth here to cope with updates" feeling suggested, for instance, by Fedora. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060724/9132ce50/attachment-0005.html>