New distro question
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Apr 9 09:36:03 EDT 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:13 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>
> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:50 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
> >
> > Ben Scott wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Frank DiPrete
> <fdiprete at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >> MIS would be just as comfy with fedora as with RH. From
> a support and
> > >> admin point of view it's pretty much the same.
> > >
> > > Speaking as a professional MIS weenie, I can say that
> the main thing
> > > that annoys about Fedora is their release cycle. Having
> to do a major
> > > upgrade to my OS every year, or living without security
> updates, isn't
> > > a choice I relish.
> > >
>
> > yes, the release cycle for fedora is a bit fierce.
>
>
> But that's the fun part. :)
>
> There's the rub for us MIS types. Fedora works great but after 2
> years, the updates go away if you don't keep upgrading. A repo might
> not exist for a 2 year old release if something needs to be added that
> wasn't on the dist. CD.
Yeah, I know. I meant to include an explicit "but of course, this sucks
for you MIS types" in there, but apparently forgot it.
> For my desktops, I probably want the latest & greatest tools. For my
> servers, I just want it to work and be secure.
And if I were in a position where I was maintaining more than just my
own, singular, personal server, I probably *would* go RHEL instead of
Fedora. (Actually, that *is* what I did in a prior life).
> IMO this release cycle is one of the major differences between Linux
> and Solaris.
> I just ran a 1995 copy of traceroute from SunOS (not Solaris) on a
> stock Solaris 10 box. That'd be Redhat 2.0 era?
Yeah, I think we might still have compatibility with RHL7.x apps on
RHEL5, but nothing quite that far back...
> On the otherhand, each update of an app or the kernel brings bug,
> speed and security fixes and might even add features that are desired.
> Solaris' awk/tar/etc is bug for bug compatible with the 1995 version.
>
> Pros and cons each way
Indeed.
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Jarod Wilson
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