Comments on: Review: CentOS 5.2

By: RonB

RonB — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:21:51 +0000

I think I probably will stick with CentOS, but it’s nice to know what’s going on with Fedora also. I may be trailing edge, but others I know enjoy the new, cutting edge stuff.

Linux has a flavor for just about every taste. Good stuff.

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:08:33 +0000

Fedora 10 is really good. I think I read once that the even releases tend to be the stable ones. Maybe the even releases are what get rolled into RHEL? If you’re a trailing edge user, I’d definitely suggest sticking with CentOS. Fedora can sometimes put out a kernel that keeps you from booting properly or breaks your system. I doubt they do that on RHEL/CentOS. Also you HAVE to upgrade every 18 months if you want to keep up to date with security updates.

By: RonB

RonB — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:47:06 +0000

Good review. I’m more of a stable, “trailing edge,” Linux user — so CentOS is a perfect fit for me (I’m also trying to work through some Red Hat studies.) I’ve never been particularly crazy about Fedora, but I downloaded 10 and installed it in VirtualBox and am wondering what I didn’t like about it. The install was as easy as CentOS — though I really like the net install option for CentOS.

I don’t know if I’ll settle with Fedora and CentOS (Red Hat) for all my uses — Debian seems better on slower machines — but it’s definitely going to be my main OS. As for the “ugly” desktop… I’m getting to the point where I really don’t care. The Desktop is almost always in the background anyhow, and I find that I like the Blue Curve theme and the “solid” background.

Choice is good. That’s just another reason why I like Linux.

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Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:02:50 +0000

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By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:41:49 +0000

Siena*

Yeah, I’m really a huge fan of Red Hat’s tech. And now that they’re working on making live upgrades officially supported, I’m not going to abandon them for another distro.

By: sienasossysadmin

sienasossysadmin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:26:14 +0000

I am a sysadmin at the siena college school of science and we have been using centos on all of our ~20 servers, and all i can say is WOW. Centos / redhat is crazy stable. The only thing that interrupts us now are power outages. Centos is great!

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:56:13 +0000

Thanks on the top two of you for the extra repos. And thanks Shawn on the support info.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:31 +0000

Good review and I agree that CentOS is where Fedora users should be if they want a longer lifecycle for updates. Fedora is not supported for 18 months, however. This link states that, on average, Fedora is usually supported at a maximum of 13 months. Fedora 8 will be supported for only one month past the official release of Fedora 10, and Fedora 9 will be supported for only one month after the release of Fedora 11.

That in itself is why I stopped using Fedora for the most part and stuck with Ubuntu. I love Fedora, but the release cycle is too breakneck for my liking, plus I get to use all the newest technologies without installing to my hard drive – the best move Fedora made was the introduction of the Live CD via Fedora 6.

Nice review! I agree CentOS has the capabilities of being just as good a desktop distro as it does a server, unless you’re the type that has to have every single program to it’s newest version.

By: Hez

Hez — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:17:42 +0000

A nice semi-official source of extra software for RHEL/CentOS is the Fedora EPEL repository. It contains many of the Extras and other missing packages from Fedora that are not an official part of the RHEL/CentOS distribution.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:50:47 +0000

Blender and other packages can be downloaded from the EPEL repository:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/blender.html