Custom Partition Fedora 18

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 02/17/2013 05:57 PM, jonc wrote:
> On 02/17/2013 05:27 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>
>> Judging by your last statement am I to assume that CentOS is more 
>> "reliable" than Fedora?...
>>
>>
>> EGO II
>
> I've had a few abrt messages and two instances of Gnome-Shell locking 
> up in this F18 installation, which began as a Release Candidate 2 
> installation last month.
>
> I used CentOS 6.3 as a desktop for several months and found it to be 
> very reliable. That reliability happens because it's been frozen in 
> place for several years as Red Hat fixes bugs and backports features 
> into the kernel. You get a standard Gnome 2 setup.  Proprietary video 
> drivers, codecs, new kernels, current browsers, etc., are available in 
> unofficial repositories, but you do need to be pretty careful to avoid 
> conflicts.
>
> As a recompilation of RHEL, CentOS is intended to be a server 
> distribution. I enjoyed it as a desktop, but eventually jumped back to 
> Fedora when I couldn't manage to update some core components so I 
> could tweak things to my satisfaction.
>
>
Am going to look into this....as I want to "build" a server at home, and 
see what I can do with it.....maybe some form of central information 
repository?......I'll think of something!


EGO II