[mdlug] Ubuntu vs. FedoraCore vs. SuSE

Dan Pritts danno at umich.edu
Mon May 21 11:57:53 EDT 2007


On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:44:42PM -0400, Michael Corral wrote:
> 2007-05-11, Monsieur Stan Green a ecrit:
> > I have the opportunity to reinstall Linux on a file server. (I don't care to
> > talk about why.) I would also like to make it a mail server some day. This is
> > all for my home network. Right now I have machines with Fedora Core 6 (Web
> > server) and SuSE 10.1 (Desktop). I have been seeing a lot of chatter about
> > Ubuntu but have never used it. Is it enough better than either FC or SuSE to
> > take on a third distro? I have no plans to stop using the other two distros.
> 
> They're all pretty much the same, quality-wise. Boils down to taste.
> 
> For a server, though, you may want to try CentOS (a free clone of RHEL).

another vote for centos - specifically because of the update cycle
for centos/rhel being many years longer than fedora.

danno
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