On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Cristian Sava wrote:
> I feel more comfortable with Fedora than with Centos and I run Fedora
> servers for many years with great success.
Why?
To me it would be irrational to run Fedora rather than CentOS on a server,
since the chances of problems arising would be higher,
and I don't see any compensating advantages.
I run Fedora on laptops because there is a wider range of apps available,
but they are not apps that I would want to run on a server.
I don't think "more comfortable" is a rational explanation for a
preference.
I think being comfy with a distro is a big deal. I can remember umpteen years ago I was
trying to get Red Hat (this was before Fedora) to run on my laptop. It wouldn't,
because there wasn't hardware support -- this was back when part of installing linux
was searching for drivers and doing manual configuration on everything. I stumbled across
Mandrake Linux. It had the driver I needed, and all the "drak-whatever" config
tools made installing and configuring it a breeze. So I started using Mandrake on my
laptop.
Then I got a couple of gigs doing sysadmin for some folk who agreed to use linux servers.
Guess what -- I installed Mandrake, and stuck with it through the Mandriva years.
During that time, one of the users on one of the networks installed a piece of hardware
that required Fedora/Red Hat for some of its controllers (else the manufacturer would not
provide support). So, I started administering the Fedora maching. I discovered that
Fedora had diverged significantly from Mandriva over the years. I didn't like it --
things weren't in the right place, config files were a little different, etc. I could
do it, but instead of being a breeze, everything was a little bit of a hassle. Instead of
something taking me 5 minutes, it took me 15 minutes. And, you know -- 10 minutes here
and 10 minutes there, and suddenly you've wasted some hours you didn't need to
waste.
Then Mandriva collapsed. I had to get used to Fedora. When Mageia came out, I was tickled
pink and immediately installed it -- only to find that now I was in the exact opposite
position. I'm now very comfy with Fedora, and all the Mageia tools an locations are a
pain in the ass to get used to. So, no Mageia for me -- not because it's a bad
distro, but because I just don't want to be bothered with changing stuff just to be
changing stuff. I'll do it if there's a reason, but not just for the hell of it.
billo