It's been a while since I've used Red Hat, but Core 1 looked a lot like Red Hat 6 and 7 as a desktop. My little brother got into Fedora and was very impressed. He also spent lots of time on it. Core 2, five months ago, was not very stable for him and he stuck with Core 1.
If you don't the desktop stuff that Red Hat does so very well, you might consider Debian. Woody is very stable and packages install very easily. These packages (or better) are available: apache 1.3.26 bind 8.3.3 and 9.2.1 qmail-src 1.03, non-free openssh 3.4 and ssh2 openssl 0.9.6 Sure, it's different, but the difference is not so great. Try them all. On Friday 02 July 2004 06:45 pm, James Kuhns wrote: >... > ... I've been using RedHat for years and really don't have the time > right now to fumble with a completely new distro so I was thinking of going > to Fedora Core 2 as a replacement. How close is the Fedora project's stuff > to the RedHat distro (also how stable)? > > Basically, I'm looking to setup a machine with apache, qmail, bind, > openssh, openssl, and a few dev tools. I'm seriously considering not > installing X at all since I don't use the machine as a desktop and can't > even remember the last time I opened it. > > James >
