Dave Carlson wrote: > I second that (good) Fedora experience, with 4 servers, one enterprise > workstation, a desktop and a few other miscellaneous machines. The only > crashing I've experienced is when the workstation's capacitors went bad; > definitely not something Fedora could help. Oh, and 380 RHEL servers > professionally, which either have hardware problems or application problems > but rarely operating system problems. > > If you're having a driver stability problem, the distribution may not make > that much of a difference. About 99% of the core software is the same. What > driver are you having a problem with? > > -Dave > Yes - I've for a long time now been a big fan of using CentOS on my production servers, and using Fedora Core on desktops where I really care about the latest widgets. If you are happy with Fedora from other viewpoints, I'd look at CentOS. On the other hand, I'm REALLY surprised at your stability experience. My main problem with using Fedora on servers is the short lifespan of support, not with its inherent stability (though keeping up with the updates on a recent release is an interesting issue on Fedora). > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:54, Chris Schumann wrote: > >> Personally, I'm using Fedora on three laptops and a server and have never >> experienced stability issues. I also maintain my company's server that >> runs RHEL, and another Fedora development box. I'm really surprised at >> your experience. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>