Fedora and MP3 [LWN.net]

Fedora and MP3

Posted Apr 6, 2006 7:33 UTC (Thu) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306)
In reply to: Fedora and MP3 by loening
Parent article: Fedora and MP3

I would love it if Redhat had a stripped down version of RHEL that was cheap and appropriate for the consumer.

I second that. I have been playing around with CentOS 4 (as well as Scientific Linux 4) and find it predictable and stable, which is what a lot of people want. It is a bit boring as it is Gnome 2.8 / KDE 3.2, though.

Tom

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Fedora and MP3

Posted Apr 6, 2006 16:16 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033) [Link]

Thirded. Would recommend Scientific Linux or Centos for anyone wanting a free tracker of red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The name "Scientific Linux" may be offputting. It's called that because it's produced by people at CERN and Fermilab, but in fact it's a pretty good linux for anyone who wants free (as in beer), easy-to-use, and Redhat-alikeness. Apart from a group of optional additional packages, there's nothing science-specific in there. It's a perfectly fine linux for anyone who wants Redhat flavour but doesn't want to pay. You have the backing of a large scientific community, so its unlikely that any showstopper bugs would be lift unfixed for long.

BTW I have managed smooth upgrades from Fedora 1 and 2 to Scientific Linux and Centos using the "linux upgradeany" option. The only post-upgrade hassle was that yum needed to be fixed, by installing the sl-release or centos-release rpm (using --force) and then uninstalling fedora-release. YMMV, have not tried escaping from FC3, 4 or 5 yet.