The Debian Flamewar Strikes Back! (was: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora)

[Ben Scott]

On 2/27/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> Most people seem to be doing just one distribution.

  I just *complain* about one distribution.  ;-)  I use a bunch of 'em.

  I still have that Debian install on my main PC at home, tho I'm not
using it right now.  I've also got FC5 (soon to be deleted, I expect),
and FC6 (freshly installed).  I might well have an install of some
MythTV-specific distribution soon.  I also want to give FC6 for x86-64
a try, and Ubuntu.  Oh, and Win XP, labeled "Wintendo" in GRUB.  :)

  LVM (which I use extensively) is really nice for trying multiple
distributions.  Virtualization (VMware, Xen, etc.) is making that
practice obsolete, but at least right now, IME, a VM is still not the
same as running something "on the hardware".

  When I had a home server (gotta get around to fixing it one of these
years), it ran White Box Enterprise Linux, a RHEL clone.

  I've got a TiVo and a LinkSys WRT54G, both of which run Linux (and
are entered into the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org) as such!).

  I use Knoppix for rescue and similar purposes on a semi-regular basis.

  The GNHLUG server (liberty.gnhlug.org) runs CentOS 4.x, another RHEL clone.

> Fedora on my home server ...

  For servers, I recommend CentOS over Fedora.  It's still just like
Red Hat, but it has a much longer release/support cycle -- on the
order of years.  With Fedora basically EOL'ing releases after a year
or so, I find CentOS much nicer for servers.  http://www.centos.org

> Solaris 10u3 x86 on my file server (ZFS rocks!)

  Oh yah.  I want to try that, too.

-- Ben