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Re: [LUG] What should I go for?

 

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:10 +0100, jody salt wrote:
>  
> I would have gone for Fedora 7 straight away but the download sections
> doesn't have CD Images available, and I don't have a DVD Writer. I
> guese could go for an older version (Fedora 6 has CD's) what do you
> think? Is it wise to go for an older version?
>  
Given Fedora's latest support policy, only FC6 and F7 are currently
supported. Since the schedule shows F8 due out in November (!), that
means FC6 may have support for about a year or less. Secondly, you are
right about no CD's being available, but again that is the new policy I
gather. So if you still have no DVD-writer by next year, then you'll
still have the same problem with F8 and future versions.

Personally I'm running F7 at work and on my home PC with no problems.
Our Linux servers though are (mainly) now on CentOS 5 (an RHEL 5 clone).
If you want to stick with an rpm-based system, then either F7 or CentOS5
may be worth a look. I have to admit that I tried Ubuntu, still have it
at work as a test PC, but after years of using RedHat/Fedora I couldn't
see why I should change :-)



John.

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