I'm currently using Mandrake to run a home Linux server, but I'm thinking to switch over to another Linux distribution (SuSE, Debian, Fedora). What are folks experiences with the other distributions?
Fedora's release cycle is pretty darn fast. But there's a huge following, and the yum/apt-get stuff is pretty much automagic at this point.
They still haven't done some of the things Mandrake did in regards to security, but overall I'm ok with Fedora. Tho I seem to have a buggy OpenLDAP on it, because it consumes memory until the kernel kills it after a couple of weeks, so I have cron restart it nightly. :P
I've had good success both with Fedora Core and with CentOS (Red Hat Enterprise, compiled from source by a third-party). yum makes package management nice and easy, and Gnome 3 is pretty keen.
For about the past year I've been running off of Mandrake's cooker. I manually update about once a week. I realize that I'm just BEGGING to get screwed, but so far so good. I've only had one true "can't boot" level failure, but that's more due to an external firewire enclosure + RAID + LVM interacting badly with SATA. This in and of itself was begging for a failure.
With the merger + a shift to a twice yearly release schedule, I'm becoming less enamoured with Mandrake/Mandriva. However I will admit their stuff just works and I love the adminsitrative tools. Now that I'm comfortable with urpmi, upgrades/package management is trivial.
I've toyed with Fedora (back in the Fedora2 days) but don't have the hardware up to play with it righ tnow. Frankly I'm a Gnome guy, so I don't see myself using SUSE until the Novell folks shoehorn the next Ximian desktop update into it.
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They still haven't done some of the things Mandrake did in regards to security, but overall I'm ok with Fedora. Tho I seem to have a buggy OpenLDAP on it, because it consumes memory until the kernel kills it after a couple of weeks, so I have cron restart it nightly. :P
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With the merger + a shift to a twice yearly release schedule, I'm becoming less enamoured with Mandrake/Mandriva. However I will admit their stuff just works and I love the adminsitrative tools. Now that I'm comfortable with urpmi, upgrades/package management is trivial.
I've toyed with Fedora (back in the Fedora2 days) but don't have the hardware up to play with it righ tnow. Frankly I'm a Gnome guy, so I don't see myself using SUSE until the Novell folks shoehorn the next Ximian desktop update into it.
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