On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:13 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:50 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote: > > > > Ben Scott wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Frank DiPrete > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> MIS would be just as comfy with fedora as with RH. From > a support and > > >> admin point of view it's pretty much the same. > > > > > > Speaking as a professional MIS weenie, I can say that > the main thing > > > that annoys about Fedora is their release cycle. Having > to do a major > > > upgrade to my OS every year, or living without security > updates, isn't > > > a choice I relish. > > > > > > yes, the release cycle for fedora is a bit fierce. > > > But that's the fun part. :) > > There's the rub for us MIS types. Fedora works great but after 2 > years, the updates go away if you don't keep upgrading. A repo might > not exist for a 2 year old release if something needs to be added that > wasn't on the dist. CD.
Yeah, I know. I meant to include an explicit "but of course, this sucks for you MIS types" in there, but apparently forgot it. > For my desktops, I probably want the latest & greatest tools. For my > servers, I just want it to work and be secure. And if I were in a position where I was maintaining more than just my own, singular, personal server, I probably *would* go RHEL instead of Fedora. (Actually, that *is* what I did in a prior life). > IMO this release cycle is one of the major differences between Linux > and Solaris. > I just ran a 1995 copy of traceroute from SunOS (not Solaris) on a > stock Solaris 10 box. That'd be Redhat 2.0 era? Yeah, I think we might still have compatibility with RHL7.x apps on RHEL5, but nothing quite that far back... > On the otherhand, each update of an app or the kernel brings bug, > speed and security fixes and might even add features that are desired. > Solaris' awk/tar/etc is bug for bug compatible with the 1995 version. > > Pros and cons each way Indeed. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/