Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:56, John Summerfied wrote:
Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH announced
its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the Fedora project
because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted.
We've dabbled in others including Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE,
Mandrake/Mandribble and some others.
I currently run Debian/Woody, Debian/Sarge, Ubuntu, FC3, SUSE 10 and
WBEL, so I know what the major alternatives are,
If you want a free long-supported, very-much-FC3-like distribution,
look at Centos4.x. The only substantial difference is having
mysql 4.x and dropping some kernel modules (which an optional
kernel rebuild adds back).
I am using WBEL on my server, where longevity is important.
I'd not use FC (haven't you seen me describe it as a rolling beta?) on
anything _that_ important.
I don't have a particular attachment to FC3, it just happens to be the
one that's been retired right now. I didn't use prior FCs and so wasn't
affected when they retired.
Retirement plans for other software are based on some period of time
_after_ the release of a subsequent (eg second, third) release, not
_before_.
The current policy of retiring an FC release immediately _before_ the
release of the second subsequent release seems completely bizarre to me.
--
Cheers
John
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