[CVALE] Best FOSS RPM Distro

[Jason Roysdon]

If you like Fedora/RH, but want stability, take a look at CentOS.  It's 
a rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux from source.

http://www.centos.org/

Ian Sterling wrote:
> Some folks will say SuSE, and while it's pretty and all, I'm not very
> familiar with it at all.  I'd say go ahead and try Fedora Core 6.
> It's a bit quirky on the installation - install just the base desktop
> and add in later or it'll crash - but once it's installed, it's peachy
> keen jellybean!
> 
> I haven't played with Mandrake in about four or six years, so I don't
> have an answer for you about that.  And last time I heard about
> Caldera, they were turning into the Anti-Christ, so I don't recommend
> them.  Other than that, I don't personally know of too many RPM-based
> distros.  (I try to stay away from RPM)
> 
> --Ian...
> 
> On 11/20/06, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
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>> I'd like to get running on a FOSS RPM based distro. I know there is Fedora,
>> but I was hoping the group might be able to suggest some other alternatives.
>> I'm looking for something relatively easy to use, and I'd like to dual boot
>> the distro with my Debian operating system.
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>> I'd like a distro with good support for Java and Python.
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>> Thanks for any suggestions.
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>> Landon
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