Goodbye Fedora and hello Centos?

[Richard Hubbell]

On 7/27/05, Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote:
> 
>     I was unable to resolve my problems in reading DVD drives in Fedora
> 4. So, I decided to switch to another distribution. I saw on one site
> that the three distros being nominated for best distribution by user's
> vote were Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu, but the
> installer kept failing. So I went to CentOS.

I tried Ubuntu also and didn't like it, the LiveCD just didn't work.  I was also
just recently checking into CentOS, I noticed that my ISP began using
it recently
and I think that it makes a lot of sense to use CentOS over fedora for an ISP.
But each person should decide based on the facts.  Have a look here and decide
for yourself.

http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html

Richard

>     Anyway, long story short, CentOS looks and feels just like Fedora,
> and it reads all my DVD drives normally, so I think I could be happy
> with it.
>     But...
>     When I tried to install Xine, using yum, it said it could not find
> it. And then I went looking for an RPM for Xine, and they're all for Red
> Hat or Fedora. I tried installing an RPM for Fedora anyway, reasoning
> that maybe they were the same in more than just looks, but no dice.
>     As I looked around the net, it seems that applications all seem to
> have specific builds for Red Hat, Fedora, a couple of Debian builds...
> but no CentOS. Going by the amount of available information and support,
> Fedora is the primary Linux distribution, and CentOS hardly even exists.
>     Can't I have it all? Stability, the ability to read my DVD drives,
> *and* a variety of applications?
>     Further, why is everything being built for Fedora if it's some kind
> of experimental build not ideal for consumer use (as was explained to me
> on this very list)?
> 
>     What's the deal here?
> 
> Dave
> 
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