Red Hat 6 stability (any experience?)

smurffit · #1 26th January 2011, 11:56 PM

Hi guys

I came from Debian to Fedora a few months ago, because - for some reason - it just worked better than the testing-branch (Lenny, back then). I have a Lenovo T61 and I was suffering for months because of the Intel-graphics bugs. F12 finally solved those problems and it ran so unbelievable smooth. Unfortunately, I noticed some regressions on F13 and F14 and the regarding bug-reports were untouched for more than 6 months.

So I'm currently considering getting Red Hat 6, because AFAIK it it's generally based on F12 and I guess, I can expect "shorter" responses to bug-reports (besides the fact, that the packages are well tested compared to Fedora).

Briefly, my question is, if somebody could confirm my assumption, that RH 6 generally runs smoother and bugs are getting fixed faster? I'm absolutely willing to pay the fees, even more if it supports the further development of Linux, but I need a stable, fast an reliable System and I guess, Fedora is not primarily focusing these goals.

I'd appreciate to hear your experiences. Thank you.

***glennzo*** · #2 27th January 2011, 12:02 AM

I've been using Redhat 6 since it became available. Solid as a rock as far as I'm concerned and as fast as any other distro that I've used.

marko · #3 27th January 2011, 12:22 AM

Centos 6 should be out in a while which is the same thing... it seems to be taking longer than first estimated.

AndrewSerk · #4 27th January 2011, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

i've been using redhat 6 since it became available. Solid as a rock as far as i'm concerned and as fast as any other distro that i've used.

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***Dan*** · #5 27th January 2011, 12:37 AM

+1

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smr54 · #6 27th January 2011, 01:42 AM

Well, using SL6 alpha, stability doesn't seem to be an issue. Speed, I'm not sure, I don't know how much debugging code is in there. I don't consider any of the RH distros to be especially fast though.

DISCLAIMER--that is a completely subjective impression, I have run no bench marks.

#7 28th January 2011, 06:52 AM

I think Debian and RH rival each other as far as stability goes. It's hard to go wrong with either one. Heck, why not just use them all?

But I look forward to CentOS 6.