On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
On 29/12/12 21:55, James Freer wrote:
Just out of interest i was wondering if many folk on here use Centos.
We run it at work on the KVM host machines.
Seems ok but to me it feels like linux from a while ago, the package tools and RPM in general still feels old fashioned and cumbersome after using deb based systems for a while.
I guess part of it is the tools you are used to, One of the reasons I selected it over a Debian server in the first place was to keep familiarity with the RHEL way of doing things. Another (more legitimate reason is that Red Hat are the key maintainers of the KVM project so I'd like to hope RHEL/Centos provides a good KVM base.
I've been experimenting with Centos and the problem is that in order to use it as a desktop one has to use the 3rd party rpmforge repo for desktop type apps - which means that one sets priorities on the repos for updates... and this causes a stability issue. Fine no doubt with its own server related repos. It doesn't tempt me for reliability as a desktop.
With the 1001 possible distros there are only a few that are really 'main' and relaible i think. Anyway i'm going to do "The Must Do" in the linux world - a Slack or Arch build as a learning exercise and we'll see where i go from there. The *buntu family seem to be going down hill according to the statistics on distrowatch. Mepis was the nicest and most reliable of the small distros (and v.friendly forum) but it's kde which i don't like as its too fancy.
james