Re: FC vs CentOS (or equiv)

From: Ivan Marsh (annoyed_at_you.now)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:48:55 -0500

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:45:44 -0400, Daniel Ganek wrote:

> P Ruetz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been trying to put Linux on my new Dell 9100. Redhat 9 did not
>> work because of the USB only keyboard and mouse (or maybe I could get
>> it to work if I were clever enough). FC 4 worked with the
>> keyboard/mouse but not the network card. CentOS 4.1 worked much more
>> smoothly. Everything seems to work on the first pass without kernel
>> rebuilding.
>>
>> So my question is: Should I even bother with FC in the future or just
>> stick with one of the Redhat clones (e.g. CentOS)?
>>
>> I use Linux occasionally to build my software for Linux and Solaris
>> (with a cross compiler). It is probably pretty obvious that I am no
>> Linux expert, but can generally "scrape by" with some help.
>
> Stick with CentOS - it's very stable; especially since you're doing real
> work(tm)
>
> FC is RH's bleed edge stuff - Great for experimenting but not for real
> work.

I'm running FC on several production servers with no issues so I'm don't
think I can agree with that statement. 

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