At Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:47:33 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 01/16/2011 02:35 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Digimer <linux at alteeve.com > > <mailto:linux at alteeve.com>> wrote: > > > > I'd have to search through the CentOS mirror list to find it. Given the > > geographic spread of the mirrors though, you would be best served to > > search yourself for one near you. > > > > > > Ok. > > > > > > > > By all means, try CentOS, but if you run into problems, please give > > Fedora or Ubuntu a try > > before abandoning Linux. They are much more up to date and have a much > > nicer user experience and hardware support. > > > > > > Means, it is pretty sure or the chances are there that problems would > > come when we would use Cent OS?? > > Well, the user programs will be a fair bit older. So things like > OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and what have you will be missing > features now considered "standard" in modern systems. > > The kernel is, if I recall correctly, 2.6.18 that has only been patched > to fix bugs and security features. The modern kernel is 2.6.37, and a > *lot* of hardware has come along in the years in between. For example, > it's unlikely that things like bluetooth, most wireless interfaces, > modern video cards, etc, will work. RedHat does back port drivers, at least 'essential' ones. But yes, much 'bleeding edge' hardware might not be supported. > > Another option, if you are concerned about the short life cycle of > Fedora, would be to look at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The 'LTS' means "Long Term > Support" and will be supported for a fairly long time. 10.04 was > released last April, so it will be quite up to date. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments