On 01/16/2011 03:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/16/11 12:43 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: >> >> 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. I *think* that CentOS 6 (RHEL 6) is based largely on the Fedora 12 release, version wise. -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org