Scientific Linux Vs Fedora

Hi

I just evaluated Scientific Linux with Fedora

Fedora - Merits as compared with Scientific Linux

1) Installation is easier than CENT-OS and hence better than Scientific Linux

2) Easy to configure, customise and use. CENT-OS is totally unfriendly, you can't mount windows drives easily.

Scientific Linux claims that it can do so like Fedora - the feature still not proven to me

3) Future Focused and Fully Featured.

Actually Fedora 15, 16 & 17 are intended to create RHEL-7 in a better way

It is for time to come rather than based on RHEL 4 or 5 as CENT-OS is based.

Fedora - De-Merits as compared with Scientific Linux

1) Not stable and supported like Scientific Linux.

2) Applications like Revisor, Virtual Box - OSE and Virt-Manager does not work in Fedora after Kernel Upgradation.

Now what is the catch in Scientific Linux:

Scientific Linux - the catch is 7 years of support and have same installation & configuration features like Fedora

But it is based on RHEL 5 and hence is an outdated Linux compared with Fedora...

That's the reason, I did not migrated to Scientific Linux

However I am planning to use this along with Windows in my Toshibha C850

 

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan,