Due hardware update. Many years on Fedora, would like to swap out to AMD motherboard( x570) and graphics (RX480) I'm led to believe that Fedora Linux is too 'new' for Centos. Question for those with experience of both, what will I miss on Centos wrt Fedora? Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... Has anyone here any 'real' drawbacks please? I'm not a power user, not a games player, just fancy a change to AMD hardware regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
Hello, I recently switch from Fedora to CentOS for my work laptop. 99% of the time it's the same. Few programs can be missing by default or old version like for my professional activity : wireshark, keepassXC, linphone, sipcalc, etc.. But with a bit of compilation inside a docker (to avoid installing dev libs on the OS) or AppImage/FlatPak/Snap you can run everything. Some default parameters on gnome are different too, just a question of configuration. Happy with my CentOS on my laptop so far (hp envy). Much more stable. Never had a crash after hibernate/back to life or external screen not discovered for no (good) reason. Regards, -- Arnaud On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 16:54, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson at gmail.com> wrote:> Due hardware update. > Many years on Fedora, would like to swap out > to AMD motherboard( x570) and graphics (RX480) > > I'm led to believe that Fedora Linux is too 'new' for Centos. > > Question for those with experience of both, what will I miss > on Centos wrt Fedora? > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > Has anyone here any 'real' drawbacks please? > > I'm not a power user, not a games player, just fancy > a change to AMD hardware > > regards > > -- > Dave Pawson > XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > Docbook FAQ. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Thanks Arnaud I'm looking at AMD X570 chipset and RX480 graphics (home build). Nice to know there were no shocks. regards On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 16:20, Arnaud Gelly <arnaud.gelly at gmail.com> wrote:> > Hello, > > > I recently switch from Fedora to CentOS for my work laptop. > > 99% of the time it's the same. Few programs can be missing by default or > old version like for my professional activity : wireshark, keepassXC, > linphone, sipcalc, etc.. > > But with a bit of compilation inside a docker (to avoid installing dev libs > on the OS) or AppImage/FlatPak/Snap you can run everything. > > Some default parameters on gnome are different too, just a question of > configuration. > > > Happy with my CentOS on my laptop so far (hp envy). Much more stable. Never > had a crash after hibernate/back to life or external screen not discovered > for no (good) reason. > > > Regards, > -- > Arnaud > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 16:54, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Due hardware update. > > Many years on Fedora, would like to swap out > > to AMD motherboard( x570) and graphics (RX480) > > > > I'm led to believe that Fedora Linux is too 'new' for Centos. > > > > Question for those with experience of both, what will I miss > > on Centos wrt Fedora? > > > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > > > Has anyone here any 'real' drawbacks please? > > > > I'm not a power user, not a games player, just fancy > > a change to AMD hardware > > > > regards > > > > -- > > Dave Pawson > > XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > > Docbook FAQ. > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:> Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag...You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases. Check out the new Fedora Toolbox command ('toolbox') ? this makes it super-easy to launch and maintain "pet" containers using podman, and you could use this to provide a Fedora working environment for when you need newer stuff. (Or conversely people running a Fedora OS can do the opposite with a CentOS container.) One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to be a drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 15:14, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:> > > One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to be a > drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's > basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required.Yes, though I do a re-install every few updates, to spring clean or update hardware. Dave> > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:14, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases. Check out the new Fedora > Toolbox command ('toolbox') ? this makes it super-easy to launch and > maintain "pet" containers using podman, and you could use this to provide a > Fedora working environment for when you need newer stuff. (Or conversely > people running a Fedora OS can do the opposite with a CentOS container.) > > One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to be a > drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's > basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required.It is good to do re-installs regularly to avoid problems like whatever file-system in Fedora N does not work with containers (or some other new feature).. but the Fedora N+1 filesystem does. You can only get that availability by reinstalling or creating a new file-system which you put stuff into... so in many ways a fresh install is usually good to do every 4-6 releases so that you aren't debugging 'why doesn't this new utility work' -- Stephen J Smoogen.