I have been installing RH and Fedora for customers for years (Fedora for > only the last 8 months or so). But, I am slowly seeing that this is not > going be an option moving forward. Fedora Core 1 was a perfectly stable > and wonderful OS, but FC2 is very buggy and looking at the mailing list, > the developers are sticking to the "FC is for testing, don't use for > anything real".
That's no good. I've had good luck with FC2 on my desktop and laptop. I wish that Fedora would ignore the crappy way Redhat did their 8-9 releases and go back to the older 5.0, 5.1, 5.x type releases where by the time we had Fedora Core 2.3 it would be rock stable. You never really get perfect stability until people test a system out enough. > But, I am looking for a slimmer server OS distro. Ahh... I thought you needed a desktop system. What sort of server will you have setup? E-smith (contribs.org, looks like their server crashed... I promise the distro is stable though) is a really nice server for small businesses. It is setup so you can hook a printer to it (for shared printing) and create samba shares that can be accessed from Windows, Mac OS 9 and OSX and Linux. It also does Apache, etc. like other Linux servers. I believe that it's based on Redhat 8. I setup an e-smith server for my accountant over a year ago and we only had one call since then. It was because the power went out and the switch everything is connected to needed to be power-cycled. If this doesn't sound good let me know what you're looking for. :+) Peace, -Cory _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
