[Moodle] Moodle 1.6 - anyone leapt in ?

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:04:29PM +1000, Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi Con,
> 
>  You make a valid point ....particularly about the lifespan. 
>  
> My research suggests that at the end of the day the kernel and 
> utilities are still the same. Also, I am led to belive that usually 

Correct. Much of the codebase in FC5 will be in RHEL 5 in 6 months time.

> with any "enterprise" distro of Linux you don't get the latest cutting 
> edge versions  - they tend to use the more mature versions (slightly 
> older but stable versions).

This is correct. 

However, it's much less of a problem for servers. With desktops, we like
all shiny and latest apps. With servers, we like tried and tested ;-)
 
> However, you have opened my eyes to these options and I am willing to 
> dig deeper to find out more about the service lives of these distros.

You'll find that installing CentOS 4.3 to be as easy as FC3 or FC4. 
Updates and patches come through the same package management framework.

It's good to have options. Especially free ones ;-)

Have fun.

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
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