Hi, On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Running the latest, shiniest kernel is ok, once all your software is tested and proved stable on it. However, in most (server) situations it's that stability that's paramount, and installing newer kernels will usually either increase performance or functionality... and if you don't need either, then the years of uptime have proved the stability many times over!
That is the stated advantage of centos - because the centos packages have already had a bedding down period in RHEL, the idea is that the supplied packages are more stable. All I know about centos is the reports I heard at cluecon 2008 - all the comments there were very favourable about centos.
I have used ubuntu, and like it a lot... Then along came hardy heron+pulse_audio, and the thing is "not quite right"......
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