With all due respect this is not a valid compare. We can compare sl to centos etc. I run both (fedora and sl 6.5) as workstations and cant complain . Sl is solid - wife likes it and cost to maintain it for me is 0. Fedora - depends what I do, if compile various projects - yes easier then sl (because of newer api) but once updates hit... uhhh. I might spend time fixing that. In short - sl is stable as promised and fedora is brand new -as promised.
Now, I think going forward, we will see hopefully happier midium in centos versions. On Nov 7, 2014 4:46 PM, "ToddAndMargo" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Got my first look at SL 7. Installed it to hard drive > on my shop computer. Eventually the idea was to learn > from my shop computer and migrate the knowledge > to my office computer. > > My office computer is SL 6.5 x64. It is set up with all > the server goodies I use at my customer sites. This so > I can test things etc.. My office computer also serves as > a workstation for my business. > > SL 7 is now 64 bit only. Means no 32 bit Windows applications > under 64 bit only Wine. OUCH! > > SL 7 is also still suffering from the out-of-dates. The base > system is up to date, but the utilities are still sadly > out-of-date: bugs and all. EPEL's Xfce is especially out-of-date > and only includes only a few Xfce plug ins. Most of my favorite > utilties/programs are still sadly out-of-date and include various > old bugs and loss of functionality. > > On my shop computer, it got so bad that I ripped out SL 7 and > installed Fedora Code 21 Beta 4 from an Xfce Live CD. > Oh boy is it nice. Even got VLC installed without a single > tear. All of Xfce's plug-ins are present. Firefox > is -- get this -- actually up-to-date! (I can't help > but notice that Cent OS 7 is keeping up-to-date now > with Firefox, but SL 7 is not.) And Wine32 works too. > Libre Office is even up to date (mostly). > > And I support Fedora too, so a loss of time with the installing, > the ripping, the reinstalling, but a nice amount of knowledge > gained. I had to learn Fedora 21 anyway. > > So the big question on my office computer is > > 1) to leave it on the much more workstation friendly > SL6.x (wine on SL 6.x stinks it is so out-of-date > and Libre-CAD is crash city) > > or > > 2) to upgrade it to FC21 server and relegate SL to a > virtual machine? That way I could have a reasonable > workstation and still test server stuff in SL7. > > Heads up on XFS. SL 7 installs it by default. FC 21 > still installs EXT4 by default. > > Whole hard drive encryption works marvelously on both. > FC 21 can even read encrypted XFS disks from SL 7. > > Wine on FC21 removes a lot of the bugs and loss of functionality > you have to suffer with on SL 6.x when used as a workstation. > And I have to say, Wine is starting to come into its own -- its is still > Beta code though. > > The learning in the field never stops. > > SL 7 seems to have all the goodies for a decent server. > But it has now become a *nightmare* to use as a workstation. > > -T > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
