-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marko Vojinovic wrote: <snip> you did your research well. i commend you. <snip> > Ok, everyone already pointed out that both SL and CentOS are almost identical true. > The SL distro has rather specific purpose --- to form a common basic true. > This means the following --- in the future, RHEL and derivatives (like CentOS) > might possibly push some updates that could interfere with the custom-made true. > This is of course unacceptable, very true. > means that SL will in time start lagging behind in being updated, _maybe_ to your thinking. > and some > updates may well never reach the users of SL. again, to your thinking. > The bottom line is that SL, CentOS and RHEL are equivalent *now*, but in > future this may/will not be so, and SL will be regarded as "older". still to your thinking. > If I were an ordinary user/admin of a system unrelated to Cern and/or grid > stuff, I would stick to CentOS and leave SL to people who really need it as a user, yes. as an admin of any system greater than 1 box, i can see many advantages of having system software that is 'grid capable'. in a system of 1+, where is there no advantage of having a grid to share any form of number crunching, program compiling? or anything else that will take a single computer a long time to accomplish? > if you do not recognize yourself to be among those target users, my > suggestion is to leave it alone. and again, for a single box, i agree 100%, to a point. that point being if i am not doing any thing, why not share? seti.org, for example, which i admit, i have not yet joined. but key word here is *yet*. as for members of this list, there are several that i would open my system to and do so readily. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIvb4t+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAj/DAJ0b4LAIdTwrZYlxPHvCN6fPsxdLTgCghtOZ 0rzAP5MVCiOOFjvhFHz3p8Q= =IwaI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines