CentOS vs. Fedora

[Chong Yu Meng]

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Hi,

One thing you want to be careful about is this : with the long release
cycles, if you need a particular feature some months down the road, or
if a patch is critical but unavailable (not likely, though), you will
need to "roll your own", and that may introduce some incompatibilities.

I recently had a problem with Tao Linux in which I had to upgrade to a
more recent version of Apache to integrate with Tomcat, a Java
application server. After spending a few days rebuilding SRPMS and
tweaking many, many components, I still could not get it to work properly.

My view is that : if you are using the CentOS box as a server, and the
application you wanted on it works, and you do not forsee upgrading,
then this is the right choice.

For myself, I find that I need Fedora, because Java seems to be still in
a state of flux, and I don't want to keep setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to
2.4 or 2.2.5.

Regards,

pascal chong


Collins Richey wrote:
| I'm currently in the process of evaluating distros for a local project
| to equip untrained users with Linux PCs and some level of training in
| the use of Linux applications. In the past few days I've put up both
| FC3 and CentOS 4.0_rc1. I've worked with FC3 for a few days, and now
| I'm doing the same with CentOS.
|
| One of our local LUG members has worked with CentOS and recommends it
| for less well qualified users because the upgrade cycle is longer that
| the cycle for FCn solutions. Thus far in my testing, I can find little
| difference between the two with the one exception: CentOS does not
| properly enable my sound card.
|
| I know we have lots of members who work with and recommend Fedora. Do
| we have any CentOS users or anyone who can throw in any
| recommendations?
|
| TIA,
|


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~ Pascal Chong


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