jan i wrote:
Is fedora the same as centOS t, I remember a discussion in AOO, where I think andrea explained the connection but I cannot find it.
They are quite different on the server side. They are all under the Red Hat umbrella (3 distributions: Fedora, Red Hat Linux, CentOS).
Fedora has more frequent updates (2 per year) and newer software, Red Hat Linux has a much more stable cycle (say, one in 3-4 years), CentOS can be seen as a free (as in money) clone of Red Hat Linux; but now CentOS was bought by Red Hat (in this sense the link posted by Ian is outdated) and I don't know what their plans are.
In short, a Fedora buildbot will probably need to be reconfigured twice a year, a CentOS buildbot may receive software/security upgrades but not upgrades that break compatibility, so a CentOS buildbot requires much less maintenance due to the much slower/stable release cycle (on the other hand, with Fedora you always get bleeding-edge software).
The machine that I used for some Corinthia testing was a Fedora machine too. I can't check the version now, but not the latest Fedora version.
Regards, Andrea.
