On 22 August 2012 18:36, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:08 +0930, Tim wrote: >> There's CentOS ... > > Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very > similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). So, > if you don't want to learn knew tricks, it's the easier choice. > Well, strictly speaking, CentOS is based on RHEL, which is made by RedHat and I don't think (but don't know for sure) that it's directly based on any version of Fedora. But if you want to think of it as Fedora with an older versions of (maintained) packages then that's not too far out. Lots of similarities, the occasional difference. > Pick another one, e.g. Ubuntu (Debian based), and you have to learn a > new way of doing things. Useful to learn, but may be more than you want > to put up with. You need to learn their different admin techniques, > join another mailing list or forum for advice, and to hear about its > foibles. > Yes, personally I've found Ubuntu to be a bit harder to administer since it seems to try to do more 'magic'. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
