On 01/27/2013 05:46 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 01/28/2013 04:18 AM, John Hinton wrote: >> On 1/26/2013 4:21 PM, James Freer wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Reindl >>> Harald<h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: >>>> Am 26.01.2013 22:07, schrieb James Freer: >>>>> From what i have seen of fedora and centos in the rpm world the >>>>> repos >>>>> are very much better in the debian world. To me the stability comes >>>>> from the distro and it's repos. Not being able to install Abiword or >>>>> yumex, having to spend time selecting options for repos to me simply >>>>> isn't worth it. >>>>> >>>>> I've just installed a Slackware distro today and it's the best i've >>>>> ever tried in 6 years of using linux. It's speed, ease of >>>>> installation >>>>> put's it in a league of its own. Or as their 'chilling warning goes' >>>>> Once you go Slack... you never go back! >>>> have fun with a package management without dependency tracking >>>> well, without the probles above are hidden, but not solved >>>> >>>> a funny thing to play with - but laughable for production environments >>>> which you maintain over many years without reinstall them ever >>>> >>> Like debian is improved on with derivative distros, when i said slack >>> i was referring to a derivative Salix... with package management >>> Gslapt which is very similar to synaptic. Hate to say it but imo very >>> much better than yum. >>> >>> You've been a nice friendly crowd but centos isn't for me. >>> >>> james >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS@centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> If I were doing a desktop setup, I would very likely not use CentOS >> "EL". Remember E stands for Enterprise. What is an enterprise? What >> expectations does an enterprise have? Our 'enterprise' is web facing >> servers doing hosting and email mostly. In the hosting world, the users >> get to put up their content. Most of the time this 'enterprise' solution >> is great. I don't have to worry about upgrades that break things. I >> would not know for instance if a PHP upgrade broke a website until the >> client let us know. This might be the day it happened or it might be >> months after it occurred. Yes, some folks don't actually look at their >> website or maybe just one portion of their website for months. For >> instance, maybe a photo album script. The enterprise life pretty much >> avoids any of these issues. I can update something like Postfix without >> worrying about it being a new version with a new config file. The >> benefits to the 'enterprise' world are huge. Stuff very rarely breaks. >> If I am developing for CentOS 'EL', I would likely use CentOS as my >> desktop version. If my goal is watching movies, viewing images, doing >> graphics work... I think I would at least look at the other distros for >> something that stays current. > I use CentOS 6.x for my desktops for these enterprise long life > stability reasons. > I do want to see movies, work with image files etc, but I also need it > to work everyday, > just like it did the previous day. It is my workstation, it needs to > do all the basics reliably > year after year. So for me the upgrade path is use CentOS 5.x until > 6.1 was released - at that time > the various repos usually have all the tools I need for a desktop > workstation. > I will use 6.x until 7.1 comes out and at that time upgrade my various > workstations - say every 4 years or so. > I guess the decision varies around the user either wanting to play > with the OS and related software > OR > use it to perform work reliably day after day. >> >> CentOS is not bleeding edge. I rarely ever suffer a cut. Instead, >> stability and reliability. If we do something to break email or web >> services, our phones start ringing within 5 minutes. Those are not happy >> customers. >> > Needless to say there ARE other distros better suited for being used as a desktop environment. CentOS is "usually" used as a server for it's stability, availability, and its compatibility with most of the repos that are out there. For desktops...a lot of companies use something with a little less management needs and something that most users can move about freely in, withouth having too much of a hard time making things work.
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