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The one advantage I've found of SL over CentOS is that SL comes with mp3
playing abilities out of the box.  

Tejus

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:26 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:03 +0000, aaron wrote:
> > I have a friend (and former business partner) who now works as a programmer  
> > for Scientific Atlanta. Sour grapes from BSD hackers not withstanding, it 
> > seems that S.A. is now migrating to Linux as the OS for all of their embedded 
> > set top cable boxes and supporting media server products. [Yeah!]
> > 
> > So my friend called today  looking for a Linux distro recommendation for his 
> > personal and home systems.  His development team now uses a lot of Red Hat 
> > for test systems, servers and developer desktops, so I suggested Fedora Core, 
> > as one would think that should be the most similar and "compatible" with the 
> > commercial Red Hat distro offerings.
> > 
> > Did I put him on the right track? Are there distros that will integrate with 
> > Red Hat as well or better?
> > 
> > Will pass on any wisdom shared...
> 
> If the shop is using RH, a closer match for the home user would be
> Centos or Whitebox. Centos is built from the src.rpm's of RH. The
> difference is the "branding" package (of course since RH has their
> copyrighted logo's).
> 
> Fedora Core is MUCH more cutting edge and thus may have more "issues"
> that RH or a community release.
> > 
> > peace
> > aaron
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