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No it's not the same. I use Fedora(desktop) and CentOS for servers where I can. But you can't compare CentOS with Ubuntu LTS. CentOS is unfortunately way too fa
by rantanplan 11y ago
No it's not the same. I use Fedora(desktop) and CentOS for servers where I can. But you can't compare
CentOS with Ubuntu LTS. CentOS is unfortunately way too far behind in package releases. You get a very stable server environment but you can't realistically use it for any modern Desktop work.
Believe me if you could, I would :)
- jkyle 11y agoWhich packages? CentoOS 7 is running a lot of the same software as Ubuntu 15.04 LTS (which just came out last week or so).
- rantanplan 11y agoWell do you remember the chrome issue? http://www.linuxveda.com/2013/02/11/rhel-obsolete-by-google/ http://www.linuxveda.com/2013/02/11/rhel-obsolete-by-google/ Also, last time I checked, KDE, which I use, was many releases behind. Also, in Centos6 which had python 2.6.5(IIRC) was a PITA to update. Actually you couldn't so you had to maintain a source-based installation of 2.7.X side by side. In general you ended up having a source distribution, because the repos had really old stuff. For web development stuff, it was really impossible to have it as your main system. Maybe CentOS 7 is a bit better, but still I don't think you can use it for modern desktop/devel operations.