Lan Barnes 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?
Everything you mention (except the fonts) has to do with the kernel, not
with Fedora. Other distributions that use the new kernels (2.6.21 and
later) will have the same behaviors. Fedora 5 was the last Fedora not to
use libata (which made everything /dev/sdX) and has a 2.6.20 kernel.
You can avoid some of the problems by not using LVM.
You could also try and learn how the new stuff works. I use Fedora 8 on
both my desktop and laptop and am quite happy with it. I recommend
reading the release notes for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 to get an overview
of what has changed. Also Kernel Newbies <http://kernelnewbies.org> has
good summaries of changes with each kernel release. Except you seem
intent on not learning anything new :)
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?
There is no problem at all. It just means you won't have the latest
version of software available. Unless you get some piece of hardware
that's not supported. The CentOS 5.1 kernel, 2.6.18, for example, does
not support the USB chipset on my motherboard, even though its been
around for a couple of years. Hardware introduced after September 2006
probably won't be supported, since that is when the 2.6.18 kernel was
released. Some third party software may also not be supported.
Gus
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