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

[Marcus Leech]

Lamar Owen wrote:

> 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.
>  
FC6 is just around the corner--the TEST1 release is already available.  
Sigh.

But with YUM, it's relatively painless to "keep up".

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