I joined the MouseTrap project just recently and am just setting up the development environment. The MouseTrap project was discussed at length at an open-source workshop in Raleigh this past weekend. There was a discussion on moving to a different OS because of the quick release/update schedule of Fedora. A question was asked at the workshop: Do we keep with Fedora or move to something else like CentOS? Here are some things that were discussed: This is what things look like: Redhat -> CentOS Redhat-> Fedora Both start downstream from Redhat. Fedora then adds more packages and makes updates often (causing issues). CentOs is on a very stable release schedule. The schedule used for Enterprise systems. So, unless you need bleeding-edge features, then CentOs wins on stability in the system. Keep in mind, CentOs is not released that often and they will never add a new major version of packages to minor releases. Example: CentOS 5 ships with foo version 6. but then say version 7 of package foo becomes available. Then CentOs 5.5 is releases. It will NOT include version 7 of foo(no new major versions of packages in minor releases of OS). You need to wait until CentOS 6 for that. This lack of cutting-edge packages is usually an acceptable trade-off for a stable, predictable system. Thanks, Jeannie ============================================= Jean H. French, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computing Sciences Coastal Carolina University http://www.coastal.edu/ ============================================= |