New distro question

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Labitt, Bruce
<labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with this distribution of Centos on my computer.

  Anything specific?  If you're otherwise happy with CentOS, we might
be able to help address those problems.

> I was wondering if there was a distro more up to date ... I want something
>  relatively stable.

  Those are, to some extent, conflicting goals.  For example, in the
world of Hats, you've got RHEL (the thing CentOS is a clone of), which
gets a major release every other year or so, and strives for minimal
changes in the interim.  So it can become "out-of-date" easier.  But
it's supported for years and years.  Contrast that with Fedora, which
tries to have a release every six months, but stops being supported
after 13 months, and is more willing to break things in the name of
"progress".  A similar scenario applies to Debian unstable vs stable.

  Not trying to talk you into or out of anything, just giving you a heads up.

> ... suited for scientific calculations.

  There's a distro called "Scientific Linux".  That's as much as I
know about it.  :)

http://www.scientificlinux.org/

> I have downloaded FC8 and opensuse10.3.  Any others
>  I should consider?

  I'd definitely check-out Ubuntu.  While it's not magic (I've
recently had a situation where a wireless gadget worked better on
Fedora than Ubuntu), it's got some nice features.  It's sort-of based
on Debian.

http://www.ubuntu.org

> MIS is familiar with RH stuff, if that matters.

  You tell us: Does it matter?  :)

-- Ben