On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:25 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 16:40 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > > you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about KDE and kdevelop > > for centos5. I recommended against it, the client insisted, now we are > > seeing it's buggy as hell, the kde4RHEL repositories give us binaries > > newer than what Ubuntu offers, but it gets stuck and sometimes explodes, > > totally unworkable. On the other hand, auto-tools are really old on > > Centos5, and so, generally, it's not a devel environment, even though > > the final build of the product will have to be done on it. > > > > which brings me to the question - should I stick to Fedora (7? 8?) for the > > devel > > environment and break from the RPM world and go for Lenny or Hardy? it's > > obvious that I have to choose something that is NOT RHEL-5 in style or > > age. I need a kdevelop and kdesvn that are KNOWN TO WORK. > > > > I must have missed this thread. > kde-redhat's [1] RPM packages for CentOS5/RHEL are -very- stable. (The > project itself is lead by the same people who lead the Fedora KDE SIG > group. (That's doing most of the work behind Fedora/KDE). > I use it on a number of RHEL5 and CentOS5 machines and I have no problem > with it. > > As for the thread itself, if you're willing to upgrade the machine once > a year, Fedora 8 should be OK. (Be aware the Fedora 7 is reaching EOL > fast). > > - Gilboa > [1] http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ >
P.S. as other have mentioned, if the machines are being used for development and testing, CentOS should be OK. If the machines are being used for production (servers, machines that will end up in your client's hands, etc), get RHEL. Trust me, no-one ever got fired for using RHEL. - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
