on 10/29/2007 6:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > David Boles wrote: > >>>> Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that they are >>>> for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have switched >>>> a long, long time ago. >>> I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant >>> surprises. >> >> Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed ti be based on Fedora Core 6 work so >> now I wonder just what the difference(s) are? > > The difference is that RHEL (the sources that Centos recompiles) cares > enough about their user base to maintain a stable kernel interface for > the life of the distribution version - which is much longer than > fedora's. The down side is that applications don't get version upgrades > as the distro version ages, just security and bugfix updates. > >> As for Fedora itself. Since you no longer use it why to you care anymore? > > I have more than one machine, so I track fedora on a box that I can > afford to have fail to boot on occasion to know what to expect from the > next RHEL/Centos. Ah! I see now. A 'bitch about it' box just for Fedora. ;-) -- David
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