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David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 22:47:10 UTC 2007
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
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