Catharsis - slowly my FC4 world crumbles around me

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote:

> 
> I checked out CentOS, and it looks interesting.
> 
> One of the reasons I went to Fedora was because I
> was interested in 
> getting a completely open source Linux OS.
> Philosophically, I'm an open 
> source advocate, and I thought I should put my money
> where my mouth was. 
> I Googled for "open source Linux" and Fedora came up
> more than anything 
> else. In fact, at the time I did it a few months, I
> don't recall seeing 
> any other options. I didn't come across Centos, and
> hadn't heard of it 
> until it was mentioned here.
> 
> In any case, Fedora seems to have the biggest
> community, the most amount 
> of interest in its development, and so on. And
> despite how clueless I 
> must seem when it comes to my understanding of
> Fedora, I did read 
> through the web site and it didn't give me the
> impression that what I 
> was getting into was a lot of experimentation.
> For example, it says on the download page, under the
> heading 
> "Understanding What You Are Doing":
> "You are downloading an entire operating system, and
> in most cases, you 
> are then going to install the operating system on
> your computer."
> I was fully mentally prepared and desiring to
> install an "entire 
> operating system". That sounded fine.
> 
> It does *not* say "You are downloading an
> experimental cutting edge 
> operating system which in which each new version
> will be trying out 
> things that are just as likely to not work and you
> should be ready to 
> work through and solve problems..."
> 
> I mean, maybe somewhere on the site it says
> something more explicit 
> about the goals, but my point is that information
> like that is not front 
> and centre. It's very easy for someone like myself
> to get the 
> impression, as I did, that this would be a new OS in
> need of tweeks, but 
> not that it expected me to be a hacker getting under
> the hood all the time.
> 
> I'm not upset that I got into Fedora and discovered
> that it's not what I 
> was looking for.  I'm just wondering about the
> alternatives when it 
> comes to Open Source Linux distros. The thing about
> Centos is that it's 
> got this really squiky way of saying how it's based
> on code from "a 
> prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor",
> which I assume is Red 
> Hat, but if they can't even name them, then how
> close is this 
> assocation? I'm sorry, Centos people, but it seems
> dodgy.
> 
> In any case, last night I made a fresh
> clean-and-install of Fedora 4, 
> just to see if I can walk a little more slowly this
> time and dodge some 
> settings problems. I'm willing to give Fedora
> another shot. But if it 
> drives me nuts, are there other Open Source Linux
> distros beyond Centos?

Sure there are.  Check this page out.  
http://distrowatch.com/.

You will see many Red Hat/Fedora Based like CentOS,
WhiteBox, Tao, etc.

You will see many Debian Based distros like Knoppix,
Ubuntu, Kanotix, etc

Mandrake/Mandriva based which was derived from Red
Hat.

Source based distros like Slackware, Gentoo, LFS and
others.  

They are just a click away.  You'll also see the BSD's
which are also excellent but you will need to learn
more to fine tune them to your taste. 

Kind Regards,

Antonio


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