[NTLUG:Discuss] [Bulk] Re: Of the free versions, which is more stable?

[Leroy Tennison]

Dave Augustus wrote:
> Have you considered Centos 4? It is Redhat Enterprise Linux 4- only free. I use it on both workstations and servers. It is great. And with Yum, it is even better.
>
> I have been using Centos for over 1.5 years now. I started with Centos 3- I replaced all my RH9 installs with that. Never looked back!
>
> Dave Augustus
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> From: Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2006 7:01:43 AM GMT-0600
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Of the free versions, which is more stable?
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> I think it's time to move on from Red Hat 9, of the latest offerings 
> from Fedora and SuSE, which one appears to be more stable for a plain 
> workstation.  I know Fedora Core 5 is way too new but what about Fedora 
> Core 4 or the newest SuSE release (10.?).
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This reply is certainly "outside my previous box" but definitely worth 
considering.  I went to Centos site and they decline to identify the 
source other than to say a "prominent North American Enterprise Linux 
vendor" and that it conforms to the vendor's redistribution policy.  
What's going on here?  I understand that all Red Hat branding has been 
removed but why the game?  Can you point me to the vendor's 
redistribution policy?

I did find other references which identified Red Hat (DistroWatch) whose 
table shows that RHEL is really holding back on some packages (Firefox 
and OpenOffice in particular).

As an aside, I also found the pathetic Tuttle, OK fiasco.  It's sad that 
ignorant people can't even fully own up to their mistakes once they have 
been helped to find them by the people they attacked...