On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been ... not happy with Fedora in general and 8 in particular. It's > not just the fonts crapola, it's the (as I see it) byzantine > "improvements" in HDD handling (LVM, sliding partitions, VOLUME0000-*, > everything "/dev/sdx") that are OK until something goes wrong (and > something always goes wrong). To me it's like RAID -- why can't I opt out? > > Anyway, I was just installing CentOS 5.1 on a box and I wondered, is there > any reason this rather more stable, less-likely-to-churn-on-me distro > can't be my workstation as well as my server? > > So tell me, what would I be giving up? Application support? Something else?
Even though I'm a bleeding-edge kind of person myself, I've often considered going this direction for a few reasons: - proprietary software is better tested against EL releases (nvidia driver, flash, etc.) - sometimes I just don't feel like working on my home workstation after doing it all day at work - I can usually build/install the hot stuff I want to play with using rawhide SRPM's (many just need rpmbuild --rebuild) - with EPEL and rpmforge, there's plenty of addon software to complete your environment - I can run bleeding edge safely inside kvm The old /dev/hd* IDE drivers will be going the way of OSS. They'll very likely be entirely unsupported in EL6, though that's a wild guess about something that doesn't even exist yet. By the way, udev does some neat stuff in /dev/disk for identifying disks. I've been using /dev/disk/by-path for some iSCSI stuff and it's really handy for finding out where /dev/sd* devices really point. I think it's definitely worth a try if you want stability without giving up too much. -Al > > -- > Lan Barnes > > SCM Analyst Linux Guy > Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
