[ale] Distro Recommendation

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:03 +0000, aaron wrote:
> I have a friend (and former business partner) who now works as a programmer  
> for Scientific Atlanta. Sour grapes from BSD hackers not withstanding, it 
> seems that S.A. is now migrating to Linux as the OS for all of their embedded 
> set top cable boxes and supporting media server products. [Yeah!]
> 
> So my friend called today  looking for a Linux distro recommendation for his 
> personal and home systems.  His development team now uses a lot of Red Hat 
> for test systems, servers and developer desktops, so I suggested Fedora Core, 
> as one would think that should be the most similar and "compatible" with the 
> commercial Red Hat distro offerings.
> 
> Did I put him on the right track? Are there distros that will integrate with 
> Red Hat as well or better?
> 
> Will pass on any wisdom shared...

If the shop is using RH, a closer match for the home user would be
Centos or Whitebox. Centos is built from the src.rpm's of RH. The
difference is the "branding" package (of course since RH has their
copyrighted logo's).

Fedora Core is MUCH more cutting edge and thus may have more "issues"
that RH or a community release.
> 
> peace
> aaron
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