Adalbert Prokop wrote: >> In my experience, Fedora is very little different to Ubuntu >> or other distributions in this sense. >> And Fedora software does not seem to me any more or less likely >> to work than Redhat software. > > I cannot agree. We used RHEL and Fedora - RHEL (and CentOS) for the > servers and Fedora for workstations. There are many differences, even if > the administration is very simmilar. RHEL comes with older software which > has been in use for longer time. And the kernels are rather old. RHEL had > kernel 2.4 for a long time, Debian stable even kernel 2.2. At this time > kernel 2.6 was already declared stable and had been integrated into > Fedora. New kernels have better support for new hardware, but older are > better tested. That is what is important for an admin. Please read what I said. I did not say that there were NO DIFFERENCES between Fedora and RHEL; I said that in my experience you are just as likely to have problems with one as with the other. The idea that you are less likely to meet problems with linux-2.2 than with linux-2.6 is just nonsense, in my opinion. It's like saying that a 3-year old car is less likely to go wrong than a new car. I find the use of the word "stable" absurd in this context. It is years since I came across any Linux kernel (or Windows OS, for that matter) that could be described as unstable, in the normal meaning of that term, which I take to mean "subject to failure in an unpredictable way". Please note too that the discussion was not about some esoteric feature in a vanilla linux kernel - it was about the changes made in the spec files between 2.6.22.1-27 and 2.6.22.1-33, in other words, spec files for the same Linux kernel. I very much doubt if any deliberate change was made to the WiFi module. I imagine something was altered inadvertently, which hopefully will shortly be corrected. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
