On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:25:50PM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue mentioned:
>http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/21/1420242>> Reading this, somebody at some point says, something along the lines of.
>> "Fedora is not an option as a major upgrade every two to three months is
> out of the question for non-computer-nerds".
Fedora is aimed at the desktop.
If you want a server OS, go for RedHat Enterprise or WhiteBoxLinux. In
hosting365, we are pretty sure now that all servers will be WhiteBox
within the next few months; we have about sixty boxes running RH7.3, which
is now unsupported. We'll have to see can we get them upgraded.
WhiteBox and RHE both have five-year update plans. Which is nice. Debian
tries to go the middle road, so you have an OS that will servers and
desktops, where "stable" can be three years out of date for some packages,
and most desktop users end up using stable (with loads of backported
packages) or testing. Choose your poison.
Check out PLD for an RPM based distro; very very nice, and has *loads* of
packages.
John
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