On 1/16/11 12:43 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
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> Fedora and Ubuntu doesn't have stability and for all the family members, once
> they are familiar with, they should work at that but Fedora expires soon
> (searched at net), so for stability and all factors, Cent OS would be good, i
> Guess so! It could be used for home PCs too, I hope so.
CentOS will work for desktop use but it is not ideal, especially as it gets
older. With only a few exceptions, the support updates have only bug and
security fixes to the package versions shipped in the original release of the
major distribution version number without adding new features. This is a good
thing if you run servers with a lot of your own programming that depends on the
exact behavior of the libraries from that version, but it is a lot less
important for an individual user that wants the newest features from all of the
available packages.
If you still want CentOS and aren't in a big hurry, you might wait for the
CentOS6 release which should be coming soon. CentOS 5.x has packages from
around the Fedora 6 era. CentOS 6 should jump that up to be similar to Fedora 14.
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