On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Cristian Sava wrote:
I feel more comfortable with Fedora than with Centos and I run Fedora
servers for many years with great success.
Why?
To me it would be irrational to run Fedora rather than CentOS on a server,
since the chances of problems arising would be higher,
and I don't see any compensating advantages.
I run Fedora on laptops because there is a wider range of apps available,
but they are not apps that I would want to run on a server.
I don't think "more comfortable" is a rational explanation for a preference.
I think being comfy with a distro is a big deal. I can remember umpteen years ago I was
trying to get Red Hat (this was before Fedora) to run on my laptop. It wouldn't, because
there wasn't hardware support -- this was back when part of installing linux was
searching for drivers and doing manual configuration on everything. I stumbled across
Mandrake Linux. It had the driver I needed, and all the "drak-whatever" config
tools made installing and configuring it a breeze. So I started using Mandrake on my
laptop.
Then I got a couple of gigs doing sysadmin for some folk who agreed to use
linux servers. Guess what -- I installed Mandrake, and stuck with it through
the Mandriva years.
During that time, one of the users on one of the networks installed a piece of
hardware that required Fedora/Red Hat for some of its controllers (else the
manufacturer would not provide support). So, I started administering the
Fedora maching. I discovered that Fedora had diverged significantly from
Mandriva over the years. I didn't like it -- things weren't in the right
place, config files were a little different, etc. I could do it, but instead
of being a breeze, everything was a little bit of a hassle. Instead of
something taking me 5 minutes, it took me 15 minutes. And, you know -- 10
minutes here and 10 minutes there, and suddenly you've wasted some hours you
didn't need to waste.
Then Mandriva collapsed. I had to get used to Fedora. When Mageia came out, I
was tickled pink and immediately installed it -- only to find that now I was in
the exact opposite position. I'm now very comfy with Fedora, and all the
Mageia tools an locations are a pain in the ass to get used to. So, no Mageia
for me -- not because it's a bad distro, but because I just don't want to be
bothered with changing stuff just to be changing stuff. I'll do it if there's
a reason, but not just for the hell of it.
billo
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