[ale] ubuntu versus fedora

[Brian Pitts]

On 04/17/2010 10:59 AM, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I've toyed with the idea of going with CentOS.  I worked with it when
> I was running a Beowulf cluster (the head ran RHEL, the nodes CentOS)
> but my actual hands on with CentOS was minimal (the nodes were
> expendable generic servers).
> 
> ubuntu's update cycle has always seemed a bit scary to me.  I loaded
> it because it seemed to support more hardware out of the box, and for
> my desktop seemed to handle repartitioning more easily.

At least they have a public release schedule and stick to it, unlike Red
Hat. Having regular releases every six months that are supported for 18
months and long term releases every two years that are supported for
five years is great, IMHO

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All the best,
Brian Pitts