On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> CentOS sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. > Indeed. > People who run CentOS want something that just plain works and they > don't expect to reinstall their operating system every 6 months or > sooner. > So too do those in the Debian Stable crowd, but their lives are more functional, more manageable, and more full of joy. > Ubuntu seems to be the most popular Linux distribution for desktops > and it seems to be more current, but I'm not sure I like Ubuntu. > I don't like having to maintain 2 different Linux distributions. > I think it's nearly fair to say that Ubuntu has pretty much killed everything else in the Desktop arena. Except for a few rogue funbois who still play with other stuff (e.g. lots of people on this list.) > Games like Dirk Dashing Secret Agent noticeably don't work quite right > on CentOS. The latest release of Dirk Dashing doesn't seem to work at > all on CentOS, I am not sure why. > Using the mesa driver probably isn't helping. > Where is Linux going in the future? What is getting the most attention > right now across the board in general? Ubuntu. > Wine and ReactOS still have a > long ways to go. You can look at it that way. really, I think these projects should be abandoned and that development should be invested into our native applications. > Dirk Dashing is a native Linux program, but it doesn't > work equally well on all Linux distributions. Are the various Linux > distributions, enterprise and desktop editions, going to get closer in > time features wise? Is there going to be a 2.8.xyz kernel soon? > Probably. They'll all run apt* package management and look like [KX]?Ubuntu. > The kernels that CentOS uses stock are quite old as far as the 2.6 > branch goes. I am using 2.6.18 and the current kernel is like 2.6.27 > or something. In CentOS, the mesa drivers seem to be ancient. > Boy, that is ancient. You should run Fedora, if you like the redhat thing. FC11 is at 2.6.29 right now. Debian Stable is at 2.6.26, and Ubuntu Latest is at 2.6.28. > Graphics support in CentOS seems to be weak even if you have > updated as far as you can. I'm wondering when CentOS 6 is going to > come out? > Whenever RHEL6 does -- likely not in the next year. http://lwn.net/Articles/286885/ > Enterprise Linux Distributions are supposed to be for people who need a > system that just works. But do these distributions have to be so far > behind the bleeding edge? I'm surprised there aren't repositories for > CentOS to make it more bleeding edge so that you don't have to maintain > I think you're talking about Fedora. Or Debian Stable if you don't like the Red Hat thing. I don't. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
