[CVALE] Best FOSS RPM Distro

[Ian Sterling]

Ooooh!  Yeah, forgot about that, yet that's the OS my company runs all
its linux servers on.  *blush*  We have over 1800 of 'em too. :-)

--Ian...

On 11/20/06, Jason Roysdon <jason.cvale-list.20050503 at roysdon.net> wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd like a distro with good support for Java and Python.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for any suggestions.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Landon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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