A long time ago I was using exclusively Debian. However, the release cycle length was a little maddening and the third party software support favored other distributions. I switched to using RedHat and later Fedora Core at home and CentOS at work. Fedora Core has a different kind of problem, and that is its changing too fast. For a while I had a 2006 version of Fedora on my home PC, and then tested a newer version a year ago, and the amount of changes was maddening. Some things that used to work since the 90s seemingly got "broken". I have spent a full day fixing the thing (before, I usually was up and running in 30 minutes with older Fedoras). Then there was the issue with ATI drivers, which are demonic and take a long time to figure out how to install (Damn, NVIDIA got this right 10 years ago). This makes me wonder if CentOS is a better OS for me. CentOS is a clone of RedHat Enterprise Linux, which is a real enterprise OS with a super-long support cycle. Any ideas? In the past, I was using exclusively CentOS at work, because no real work environment can deal with superfast release cycles of many other distributions. However, CentOS certainly lagged when it came to latest open source software support (want to install the latest mplayer on 2 year old CentOS, how about spending hours on rebuilding rpms from other distributions?). Commercial software support was superb however.
This post has been edited by pollofeliz: 29 September 2011 - 01:17 AM