Olaf Mueller wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I am using CentOS for my server, and since I have changed to this
distribution my server is rock solid. So I like CentOS very well, as a
server, but not as a desktop pc. In my opinion CentOS (5.0) doesn't
support enough hardware to use it on *my* desktops. For example one of
my desktop pcs has 4 scsi scanners with 4 different scsi cards for
fast simultaneous scanning. CentOS 5.0 only recognizes *1* of the 4
scsi cards. This is very mysterious cause fc6 get all these cards very
well and CentOS 5.0 is something like a offspring of fc6, isn't it?
Something like. RHEL5 is based on FC6, and of course C5 is based on RHEL.
It's work reporting as a bug against C5. It sounds like the sort of
thing that should work in RHEL - basically you're within the limits of
what an Enterprise user might do.
Also the soundchip of my Toshiba Tecra notebook isn't supported any
more by CentOS 5.0 (and centosplus kernels) cause of missing isa sound
modules in the kernel. Fc6 supported this soundchip very well.
If that's an enterprise sort of notebook (and maybe if it's not), that's
worth reporting too.
It will be very difficult for me to change a desktop that makes such a
great job. But it makes for me no sense to use a software over its
point of EOL.
On the other hand I am very happy to get a distribution like kubuntu
for my desktop which has such a great kde support.
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Problems I have with the Ubuntu family are the limited life of most
releases, and the vast array of unsupported* software (universe) it
includes.
* Supported in the Debian world means one gets security fixes. Debian
does security fixed for stable, but Ubuntu tends to build from Testing
and SID, and do the support itself.
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Cheers
John
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