How about installing Debian 5 "Lenny" It is supposed to be very stable and you can run all the cool things you like.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Because they are just rebuilding and repackaging Red Hat Enterprise > > Linux. Enterprises are > > not interested in things like game support on their servers. > > > > I run CentOS 5.3 on my work desktop. I use it because it is the > > closest to RHEL5 that > > I can get without spending (or causing the company) to spend money. I > > do have paid > > support for two copies of RHEL5 as this is for our version control > > repositories. Had to > > go with RHEL as the company already was using Clearcase and IBM only > supports > > Clearcase on RHEL or SUSE. > > I don't run Fedora on a server because I can't count on it like > I can on an Enterprise Linux distribution. That said, just > because I'm running a server or a critical workstation does not > suggest that I don't care about graphics. Lack of support for > 3D rendering on a critical workstation can be a major problem. > For a business environment, Fedora is not even acceptable for a > Workstation. Supporting the latest version of the ext filesystem > on an Enterprise Linux system doesn't make sense, but video > drivers should be cutting edge. If I can't run command and > conquer under Wine because I don't have 3D support, then I > probably can't run a 3D cad application either. Fedora is too > bleeding edge and CentOS is too far behind. I don't feel > comfortable with Ubuntu. > > Maybe it would be better if Fedora were more stable and Enterprise > Linux systems were closer to it in some critical areas. > > I find the suggestion that a Linux system that is good for games > is not an Enterprise Linux system to be disturbingly rude. Many > of the things that games demand from computers are needed by many > businesses. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
