centos is based on redhat enterprise. and very few enterprise shops are going to care about running games or even having opengl. they care about running web, mail, database, etc services. and they want those things to not have interface changes over a long lifetime. so redhat picks a stable version of the various tools and does a lot of work to backport security and bug fixes to that original version so that your core enterprise functionality is not impacted.
only recently have they decided that upgrading firefox is better than trying to patch things because that kind of program doesn't need the same level of stability as sendmail, apache, mysql, etc. ubuntu is certainly more desktop friendly. so is fedora. but fedora is not sanity friendly because they go to the other end of the spectrum and grab the latest and greatest toys and throw them in the blender and hope that enough alcohol will kill the taste :-). i have only recently started running ubuntu on a netbook, and since i don't really get under the hood very much, that works fine for me. thunderbird, firefox, ssh all work like i expect. but i run centos on every server i deal with. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
