Ok, so I've been using Fedora for the last few years to work from home. At work we use RHEL 5. I picked Fedora as I figured it would be the closest thing.
But the thing I've found, over the years each release of Fedora seems to divirge more. Basically, I'm looking for just a nice plane jane development box. I don't care about web browser junk, audio, neato gaming graphics things. Just need basic graphics support for a dual head 1600x1200 box.
I'm just using gnome and its terminals for my interface, and the basic tools like vi, cvs, C/C++ compilers, Ruby, even resort to perl at times... eew...
It just seems after installing a new Fedora release, I spend hours having to figure out what additional RPMs I need to get installed that used to be there. They keep adding bells and whistles, but seem to keep removing more of the things I expect to be able to link to by default in /usr/lib and so on.
Hmm, I guess I'd love to figure out exactly what "set" of RPMs they build our RHEL 5.2 boxes at work are and have that. If its newer version of something like a compiler I don't mind. I like having the newer compilers and such at home as they are a bit more strict and the like.
Any votes for this? I'm sure I'm not the only one. One of the things I loved about Linux versus Solaris, Tru64, IRIX and the other big UNIX OSs it they used to always deliver all the things I needed.
But the thing I've found, over the years each release of Fedora seems to divirge more. Basically, I'm looking for just a nice plane jane development box. I don't care about web browser junk, audio, neato gaming graphics things. Just need basic graphics support for a dual head 1600x1200 box.
I'm just using gnome and its terminals for my interface, and the basic tools like vi, cvs, C/C++ compilers, Ruby, even resort to perl at times... eew...
It just seems after installing a new Fedora release, I spend hours having to figure out what additional RPMs I need to get installed that used to be there. They keep adding bells and whistles, but seem to keep removing more of the things I expect to be able to link to by default in /usr/lib and so on.
Hmm, I guess I'd love to figure out exactly what "set" of RPMs they build our RHEL 5.2 boxes at work are and have that. If its newer version of something like a compiler I don't mind. I like having the newer compilers and such at home as they are a bit more strict and the like.
Any votes for this? I'm sure I'm not the only one. One of the things I loved about Linux versus Solaris, Tru64, IRIX and the other big UNIX OSs it they used to always deliver all the things I needed.
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