on 10/29/2007 6:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
David Boles wrote:
>>> Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that they are
>>> for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have switched
>>> a long, long time ago.
>> I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant
>> surprises.
>
> Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed ti be based on Fedora Core 6 work so
> now I wonder just what the difference(s) are?
The difference is that RHEL (the sources that Centos recompiles) cares
enough about their user base to maintain a stable kernel interface for
the life of the distribution version - which is much longer than
fedora's. The down side is that applications don't get version upgrades
as the distro version ages, just security and bugfix updates.
> As for Fedora itself. Since you no longer use it why to you care anymore?
I have more than one machine, so I track fedora on a box that I can
afford to have fail to boot on occasion to know what to expect from the
next RHEL/Centos.
Ah! I see now. A 'bitch about it' box just for Fedora. ;-)
--
David