David G. Miller wrote: > Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at ...> writes: > >> I hadn't logged into Fedora for about ten days -- which was the last >> time I updated it. I updated it again today and it already had 315 >> Megs of updates. I think Fedora is a good distribution, but I don't >> think I would want that kind of upkeep traffic. (Which is one of the >> reasons I use CentOS.) >> > I've been playing with Fedora and Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop since this > past Spring when I took a couple of network security classes at the local > community college. Seemed like almost every tool took a more recent version of > something than is currently shipping with CentOS. I don't really like the > instability and high change rate with Fedora but I got really tired of needing > to build several libraries as well as the application under /usr/local when the > same application would cleanly build or install under FC or Ubuntu. > > SIGH. The choice is always bleeding edge (and take your lumps) or stability but > missing the most recent versions. I'm looking at a career change (or mid-life > crisis) with the network security classes. I'm not finding that I enjoy > software development (what I've been doing since 1980) the way I did back when. > > Cheers, > Dave > The CentOS (RHEL) vs. Fedora decision is easier when the RHEL version is relatively new. Unfortunately, RHEL 5 is getting a bit stagnant in library versions, APIs, etc. so it's frustrating to try to run newer applications on it. It's this reason that makes me all the more eager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Last I heard, it would supposedly be based on Fedora 10 or 11... Has anyone heard rumors of a RHEL 6 schedule? -Greg