Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Hi,
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
If you like Fedora then you will love CentOS, in my humble opinion
Fedora is no more than testing for Red Hat, while CentOS is Red Hat
Enterprise.
Umm, I think it would be more correct to compare Fedora with Debian SID
-- Fedora is testing ground and the baby of Red Hat, somewhat bleeding
edge, as is SID. Red Hat feeds off Fedora just like Debian stable feeds
off SID thanks to all those that are happy to work with unstable for
whatever reasons suit them.
If you want a comparison to Red Hat, not Fedora, then I think that
Debian stable [Lenny at this time], is a reasonable comparison; however,
CentOS with the Red Hat dollars and clout just _might_ be more superior
in some ways -- but it all mostly comes back to choice.
If I wanted to run a Red Hat 'equivalent', then I would choose CentOS --
but Fedora is no equivalent to Red Hat or CentOS by any means today.
I've often found that packages are slow to make it to stable and you
hear of this package or that package; you follow it up and find that it
isn't available in stable... it might be in testing, but it is more
likely to be in SID. Anyway, that is a lot more to do with stable vs
testing vs unstable -- it is hard to expect stable to have the latest
software, or as many packages. Heck, how many packages remain at beta
stage forever or close to it?
Anyway, the whole premise that Fedora should be compared with Lenny is
quite a stretch to start with.
Hi Andrew, while I think I understand what you are saying, personally I
can't compare any RPM type distro to Debian, Debian is just so much
better, well thought out and in a league of it's own. :)
--
Jimmy Johnson
Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A.
Registered Linux User #380263
K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid)
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