On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, 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? > > 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 are a good number of RHEL and SuSE Enterprise desktops here. We need to provide compatibility with proprietary apps (EDA, etc.) so this is a necessity for us. There has been some grumbling about lack of cutting-edge desktoppiness a la Ubuntu but these machines are first & foremost tools to do a job so we offer RHEL/SLED and do what we can to make people comfortable. -Deke (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
