[ILUG] Flameware material : Fedora

[bobb]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 in lists.ilug you wrote:

I work in the academic world, so things tend to be different...  

>  I'd be interested to hear some advice from houses with lots of Red Hat
>  systems in operation... are you going with Fedora,

Not sure where that person got 2 months from, I believe the fedora
people will be trying to get a release every 6 months or so.
Which I would prefear to RHEL/debian where the stable branch can lag
18+ months behind current trends, at least with debian, testing is
pretty stable...

Havn't had much time to look into Fedora, stuck it on the laptop
and it works... 

> (another Red Hat flavour),

Unlikely...

>  chucking Linux for *BSD

It could be an option considering most of our admins are actually
more familar with FreeBSD...
Unfortunately we use a number of big expensive commercial Linux
applications...

>  or using Debian.

This is possibly the likely road that we will take... 
That is, once we can find some time to learn "the debian way(tm)"...

- bobb

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