Is CentOS Debian-based?
One guy at school keeps talking about how much he hates Fedora Core and how much better Debian-based Linux distros are. Is CentOS debian-based?
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No Centos is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHEL for short. I am sure there is nothing wrong with Debian, but I prefer Centos. I myself would not use Fedora due to its short life span.
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How does it have a short life span, Fedora I mean. I read about it but what makes it bad?
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Ahhh, I see so it is basically like a trial, whereas you have a limited time to use it. Well that is just pointless.
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mmm, it's actually worse than a trial, redhat have a habit of releasing buggy beta software in that distro, so you are basically a free beta tester. Which is still better than Microsoft, as they now charge you for being a beta tester. With fedora, you can expect to have several problems per year due to buggy updates. With RHEL or Centos, you can expect to have a problem about every 2-3 years (no distro is perfect). |
Yes, its worrying to see some hosting companies using Fedora and saying its "the best linux distro for webhosts"...its all about CentOS, Fedora is nothing compared to CentOS
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Depends on what you need - Latest or most stable
I think the selection of Centos vs Fedora is entirely up to utility. If you need to use the latest version of a particular software package (i.e. the latest PostgreSQL for performance reasons or the latest Java distro for testing, the latest SpamAssassin for the latest/greatest SPAM filtering capabilities) Fedora might be your best bet. If you want to run stable versions of popular software and want a long support lifecycle, CentOS is the way to go.
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When we first started doing virtualization with Xen, we used Fedora 8 because it could be hacked to support the latest virtmanager and other tools. Now, CentOS 5.5 has all of the stuff we manually added (albeit over a year after we got our Fedora 8 config running)
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CentOs is a redhat based linux and I strongly reccomand it for server environment. You can find lots of support from a large and knowledgeable community. It has easy to install packages if you aren't a tech savvy person its just cool :P
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