CentOS vs. Fedora

[Chong Yu Meng]

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Collins Richey wrote:
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| Just another note: the users for whom this is intended will not be
| running servers or looking for the latest and greatest packages. They
| will be entry level high school kids from an impoverished background
| who may or may not ever have had access to a computer, windows or
| linux. I'm thinking that the longer release cycles will suit their
| needs, since they won't need to do much maintenance-wise other than
| watch the up2date icon on the gnome desktop and do occasional updates.
| If it gets more involved than that, the suppliers (moi, etc.) will be
| available for consultation.
|

I think this is such an important thing you are doing for the kids !
When I was first starting out in system administration, it was
impossible to find a free solution (Internet connections back in 1996
were very expensive and I had no clue there was such a thing as Open
Source or Linux). Consultants and other professionals were willing to
help, but would charge way too much.

I think whichever distribution you choose will matter much, much less
than your willingness to help these people out. If I had somebody back
then to help me get familiar with an operating system -- any operating
system -- I would have been so grateful! And don't underestimate these
kids -- you may be pleasantly surprised to find one of them, one day,
running a major network !

BTW, I think  your reasons for choosing CentOS are very sound !

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