Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday 23 June 2006 13:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
> But anyway of the ones you'v mentioned, Ubuntu is good because its
> even easier to use then Debian, which is what it is based on. Mandrake
> was renamed Mandriva because of copyright complaints. Fedora is still
> too unstable. I personally prefer Slackware Linux www.slackware.com
> for all of my Intel based setups.

I'm curious as to where you've found Fedora to be unstable, and what you mean 
by unstable.  If it means "changes too much too quickly" then, yes, Fedora 
does do that.  It's not unusual to get a couple hundred MB worth of updates 
in a week's time.  GNUradio compiles and works fine on FC5, though.

I'm using GNUradio in production on CentOS 4 (based off Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 4 sources), and it is stable at this point.  It is not an easy task 
getting it to build on CentOS 4, though.  On FC5 the build was pretty 
painless, once I found an SDCC package that worked.
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