Choosing a distribution

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Chris G spake thusly on 274023512 ::
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:59:48PM -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
>> Chris G spake thusly:
>>> I have been using Linux for many years, for the past two or three
>>> years I have been using Slackware but recently have been looking for
>>> something that's a bit easier to maintain and update.
>>>
>>> I've been using Fedora 7 for the past month or two and it provides
>>> some of what I need but also has some disadvantages.
>> I'm curious. what are it's disadvantages?
>>
> Mostly the 'continuous updates' philosophy, if you do 'yum update all'
> at intervals (or accept the updates that automatic updating gives
> you) then, among other things, the kernal will get changed quite
> frequently and that forces a recompile of the Nvidia drivers and
> Vmware - which doesn't always work .... so sometimes hassle.

>From a desktop user perspective that's probably my fave thing about
Fedora.  Fedora 8 is being released this week and if Firefox 3.0 were to
be released in January, Fedora would add it (whereas Ubuntu and most
others would not).

After I asked you this question it dawned on me that if I were in need
of a server and wanted to go the RPM route I'd go with CentOS. It's very
stable and you only see security updates.  And it has a lengthy support
period. Fedora's is only a year from the date of release.

Although personally, I *generally* prefer Debian based distros.  But I'm
an OS junkie, so I play with everything. :)

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>
>>
> I'd probably dispense with xdm/gdm/wdm, just leave the system to
> default to init level 3 and run 'startx' to start X windows.

Aah, well I'm always running no less than GNOME *and* KDE so I find a
display manager easier. But then I don't run servers, either.

Speaking of that, one might ask why have X at all if you're running a
server?  I'd probably want X but most seen to find it unnecessary.


> Thanks for the useful reply!  :-)

You're welcome


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