Goodbye Fedora and hello Centos?
Markus Huber
humarfedoralists at yahoo.de
Wed Jul 27 23:41:43 UTC 2005
Dave Gutteridge wrote:
>
> Further, why is everything being built for Fedora if it's some kind
> of experimental build not ideal for consumer use (as was explained to me
> on this very list)?
Dear Dave, I am a /consumer/ and I learnt Linux through Fedora (Core 1).
And by learning it, I also learnt that not every Linux flavour works on
every machine I own (so I have a SuSE-notebook as well) - be it my
fault, be it the combination between hardware and OS.
But what are you missing? With Fedora you have Extras/Livna, with CentOS
you have Dag/Dries/freshrpm/AT (and they build lovely rpms for Fedora as
well, from a "customer" point of view).
Just give the distribution a try for which your hardware works best if
you are interested in using Linux. If your DVD/CD-drive works with
CentOS and not with FC4 - just use CentOS.
What I have learnt using Linux the last 18 months was: it is very
essential not to mix the OS on the one side resp. data and configuration
files on the other side. And do backup data and config files.
You then can wonderfully test various OS without endangering your data.
It's great fun in winter ;-)
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Regards
Markus Huber
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