F8 vs F9
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 16:30:04 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:05 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
> <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I need to install a few new systems in the next
> few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code
> development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above
> all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might
> be better off with F8 than F9. Is this true?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
> You know, those on this list may beat me up for this, but if you're
> looking for stability and least fuss, I'd suggest CentOS instead. As
> someone else pointed out, Fedora is for people who want to get their
> hands dirty and try out the bleeding edge - and it doesn't sound like
> that's what you're after.
This is absolutely right. I run F9 on my desktop but my institution's
servers run on CentOS and that's not going to change. I wish more people
would understand that Fedora is basically a testbed, then we might get a
lower rate of this-damn-thing-doesn't-work-I'm-moving-to-Ubuntu
messages.
poc
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