On 09/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Howells</b> <<a href="mailto:alex.howells@0wn3d.us">alex.howells@0wn3d.us</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/12/2007, Robert Hulme <<a href="mailto:rob@robhulme.com">rob@robhulme.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I'd like to point out that there were a few anonymous comments /<br>> discussions in the IRC channel to the effect that it might be a good
<br>> idea to ditch Fedora Core and try out a different distro.<br><br>.. possibly one that doesn't change drastically every release, one<br>that has a good concept of "long term" support, basically one which
<br>isn't an unstable warzone (aka: testing ground) for the latest and<br>greatest rubbish from Red Hat.<br><br>*cough* Perhaps now would be a good time to suggest Debian if this is<br>a server, or Ubuntu for desktops? ;)
<br><br><br></blockquote></div>Well - the US NSA uses RHEL which is the commercial version of Fedora - and Linus himself uses Fedora - so I doubt if it is that bad! Sure Fedora is cutting edge and sometimes it needs to be "honed" for a specific system, but you get a really up to date distro with a cutting edge kernel which works for the vast majority of users. However I would say that it is not a Linux beginner's distro. If you are new to Linux and want a safe distro and are running a standard laptop or desktop then maybe Ubuntu or Debian are perhaps more suitable. However if you want a secure system running server services and are happy to hack and fine-tune the system then I feel that Fedora is about right - but your mileage may vary.
<br><br>If you need a guaranteed stable version and are prepared to pay for it you can always pay for RHEL and have almost the same advantages as with Fedora but more guaranteed stability.<br><br>This is just my opinion and yours may be different!
<br><br>-- <br>mike