On 06/27/2018 11:19 AM, bruce wrote:
Also, given that centos is behind in terms of php/python/etc.. are there "better" OS/platforms to use?
Hi Bruce, Oh good golly! CentOS (RHEL) is a MISERABLE bug riddled OS. I used it for years and almost went INSANE. Simply put, RHEL is an Anti-Kaisen (Kaisen = Constant Improvement) OS. They take a snapshot of a defunct versions of Fedora and freeze it in place. The last straw was when RHEL ate my business contacts in Osmo every time I shut down. Mind you Osmo has this issue fixed but could do nothing for me as RHEL is wildly out of date. That and it would not run on modern motherboards. Keep in mind the following rule. Every OS is "stable" *** if *** it runs the programs you want to use properly. And you can freeze ANY OS by turning off the updates (like RHEL does), even buggy M$ Windows (Shut Up 10). So where to turn? I have converted all of my computer and all of my computers to Fedora (all on 28 now). I adore Fedora. They actually fix things and keep after bugs and problems. In my experience, because of such, Fedora is about 50 times (not exaggerating) more stable that freeze-all-the-bugs-in-place RHEL. Don't use RHEL or clones (CentOS), if you want things to be kept after. Oh and you will notice that your USB 2 is 4 to 5 times faster and USB pass through actually works on qemu-kvm under Fedora that RHEL. And you can actually use it on a modern motherboard! So, pick which OS has the support you are after. After converting to Fedora, I had a case of the out-right-laughter over being so tickled over all the hundreds of bugs that were fixed. VLC even worked right! And the irony did not miss me that kvm is a Red Hat project and they can't run their fixes and upgrades on RHEL either. qemu-kvm is sweet under Fedora, but a bug riddled mess under RHEL. Wine Staging worked sweet under Fedora too. -T _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/CV7HBB56NRSNACQLQDPPRNO46XCQIUJQ/
