Scientific Linux is the one. Following Nicks Advice, I installed it as one of my development environments. If one wants, you can add additional repositories and download hours of extra software. (I only am after the video driver and for recreation, during a coding pause, free cell solitaire (which I did not find).
My first impressions are that fedora15 with XFCE is faster than gnome, and more user friendly. I will be looking into installing and using xfce on Scientific Linux. Thanks for the heads up on SL. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 40 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Patricia Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: From: Patricia Campbell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Time to upgrade To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 12:04 AM I agree with Nick, I am a long time user of CentOS for production boxes for SMB and education and v 6 is finally out. However they were very slow to release version 6 which makes me wonder about the stability of the project. So maybe Sci Linux has a better long term outlook due to the fermilab and cern backing, they released v 6 very soon after Redhat did so. It is worth keeping both in mind. Fedora is not a good choice for production boxes. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Alex Gal <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you given Arch a thought ? > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 18:31 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: >>> My Fedora 14 distribution has reached end-of-line. Its time to >>> upgrade, and on one drive I already have Fedora 15. >>> >>> >> >> I Would be looking at Centos 6 in your case. You are Familiar with RPM >> your distro of choice seems to always fall back to fedora and thus i can >> honestly recommend Centos 6 or Even Scientific Linux 6. But since one >> has a more robust community Centos in this case I would go with that >> version. It is based on Fedora 13 and has long term support so no end of >> life after 1 year. >> >> Later, >> >> Nick Sklav >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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