Re: Motherboard Question
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:11:55 -0500
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:32:33 -0700, Steve wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:54:03 -0500, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
>
>> Is there any reason that you need to use an antique distribution? Don't
>> say it's because you have the CDs. You can download Fedora Core 3 or
>> Mandrake 10.1 for free or if you want Redhat Enterprise Server 3.0 you
>> can download a free version called Whitebox Linux. If you don't have a
>> broadband connection then you can buy CDROMs from
>> http://www.linuxcentral.com for about $2 a piece, they stock evry common
>> distribution.
>
> Hello,
>
> None at all. I was just trying to understand how long I could use a given
> kernel, or distro. I guess forever as long as you keep the same hardware.
If you don't care about patches then obviously you can use a distribution
forever on a particular piece of hardware. However if you want bug fixes
and security patches you are faced with either using something like Redhat
Enterprise Linux or doing frequent upgrades. Redhat Enterprise Linux
is supported for five years. It's out of date the day they release
it because Redhat chooses older better tested components for RHEL
rather than the latest versions. At the other end of the spectrum is
Fedora Core which is constantly updated and gets the latest versions of
everything as soon as they are available. Fedora Core is only supported
for a year. Mandrake is supported a little longer than Fedora Core but not
nearly as long as RHEL. Mandrake has the best GUI configuration tools and
the best installer with Fedora a close second. Gentoo has absolutely no
tools of any sort, they pride themselves in making you do everything the
hard way. They claim that it makes Gentoo a better learning tool because
you are forced to do everything by hand. I don't buy that. Every Linux
distribution has the same set of control files under /etc so you can
always do things by hand if you want to. I think it's easier to find out
how things work by having a tool that does the right thing and then
looking at the results which you can always do in Linux because every
configuration file is text based (as opposed to Windows which keeps
everything in databases).
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