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?
Not really.
Support for things comes a bit slower to CentOS. Sometimes that's good;
sometimes that's bad.
So tell me, what would I be giving up? Application support? Something else?
Only for some really bleeding edge applications.
CentOS 5 is new enough that there isn't too much pain. This is unlike
CentOS 4 right before 5 came out. 4 was old enough that there were
quite a few things that simply refused to work anymore.
Stay away from Ubuntu if you do development work. It's just way too
painful to get all the dev tools installed.
-a
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