Beware the Experts

[ Thanks to The
Small Box Admin for this link. ]

“The Square Peg in the Round Hole

“The first set of stories began with the idea of shoehorning an
enterprise Linux distribution (i.e. workstation/server class) into
a netbook computer . I read the first headline of this misadventure
and was baffled by the idea and just couldn’t understand the logic.
Netbooks are not tiny notebooks, but a whole different class of
machine. This grand experiment evolved into a tirade against CentOS
in general. As a CentOS user, this again made no sense, in that one
who uses CentOS is aware that updates are generated from sources of
upstream vendor and small delays have historically occurred. The
delay of CentOS 5.3 had me considering moving to another
distribution, and I still haven’t made a final decision. Yet, I
have always been in complete knowledge of the derivative nature of
CentOS and the pluses and minuses of a distribution that is
dependent of another.”

Complete
Story