Distribution quotes of the week [LWN.net]

What we can apply from the puzzle in Free Software, is that just like building a [jigsaw] puzzle, solving problems or troubleshooting should also be documented.

So I'm using this as an excuse to remind everyone that if you "yum remove gnome* -y" from your Fedora 15 computer, and don't have KDE or any other graphical user interface to fall back to, the next time you reboot, it won't actually finish booting unless you set it to boot as Run Level 3.

-- Juan Rodriguez

The ugly memories of watching White Box shrivel up and die after failing to deliver a RHEL5 distribution have been coming back lately. RHEL6 was released in November of 2010, tomorrow it will be exactly six months old. There is no sign of a CentOS6 yet.

-- Greg Smith

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Posted May 19, 2011 13:59 UTC (Thu) by gouyou (subscriber, #30290) [Link]

And the move away from CentOS is probably going to accelerate as RedHat just released version 6.1 of RHEL ...

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Posted May 19, 2011 16:45 UTC (Thu) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]

I've been quite happy with my switch to Scientific Linux. Sometimes people seem to forget it's out there, and funded(ish). I've also noticed traffic picking up on the mailing lists as it seems more and more people are switching.

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Posted May 25, 2011 17:00 UTC (Wed) by SkyGuy (subscriber, #60773) [Link]

Well I'm sure not considering moving to Scientific Linux if they put a higher priority on releasing a new distribution (6.0) rather than concentrating on bug and security fixes on an existing one (no 5.6 yet).

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Posted May 31, 2011 7:53 UTC (Tue) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Hm, WBL4 userbase might have sounded the same back then -- postponing migration till it was obviously dire need *and* could get less time.

If you want a deeply supported old releases, pony up something: bucks for Red Hat, your time and talent for CentOS and friends, or maybe your CPU+RAM resources. Just sitting there wanting rock-stable freebies isn't going to really work, you know.