My recent post about using Git/Mercurial on my home directory really pushed me to figure out which DVCS I wanted to move to long term. I wanted to share with you the reasons why I switched, not to try to convince you to switch to Mercurial, but to share with you things you may not have known about it. These observations were primarily over the last week, but I had interacted with both git and mercurial prior to taking the time to learn more about them. I will also mention that there are going to be things about Mercurial and Git that I cannot comment on. I do not deal with distributed version control as much as I do centralized so I am unable to comment on features that are more DVCS specific.
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I installed Fedora in a virtual machine to play with Fedora Directory Server since it would be more recent than RHEL or CentOS. I noticed post install that I could not stop pulling an IP address from DHCP despite setting up the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file to be static. After a quick search I found that Fedora is using the NetworkManager to handle the networking before anything else so to fix this issue you need to disable NetworkManager and enable plain old network.

chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig --levels 2345 network on
/etc/init.d/network restart