Re: ever migrate from Fedora to Scientific Linux or CentOS?
On 10/31/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The unexpected bug introduced by frequent updates (much less
re-installs) have lost some of their charm for us.
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In the past I've resisted adopting these longer lived distros because,
well, they get outdated and frustrating because they don't
interoperate with the rapidly changing part of the Linux world.
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So maybe I don't want Scientific Linux or CentOS. Wish the
RedHat/Fedora Legacy group had not disbanded. For security updates on
a one year old distro, it was very handy.
I agree very much with your sentiment. On our servers we run
Scientific Linux. The desktops run Fedora.
The servers are great, but admittedly we use a much smaller set of
software. With the desktops, its either do updates frequently or do
them 500 at a time. I'd be a lot happier if the kernel was updated
less frequently (like with the server.)
Right now, I think the happy medium might be with the latest SL, and a
few applications like Firefox and Thunderbird compiled by hand in
/usr/local/...