[drupal-support] CentOS 3 Enterprise Linux or Fedora Linux Core 3?

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If they offer FreeBSD consider it instead the linux distros.


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From: "puregin" <puregin at puregin.org>
To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] CentOS 3 Enterprise Linux or Fedora Linux Core
3?


> On 13 Aug 2005, at 3:48 PM, Earl Miles wrote:
>
> > Carlos Miranda Levy wrote:
> >> I'm hiring a new Linux box because I just got tired of problems at my
> >> old
> >> Linux hosting provider.
> >> The new provider gives me 2 choices for Linux flavors:
> >> CentOS 3 Enterprise Linux
> >> Fedora Linux Core 3
> >> Any preference or recommendation on which to choose?
> >
> > CentOS is going to have a longer lifecycle; Fedora Core has a very
> > short EOL cycle because it's the stuff that's always on the leading
> > edge of what's out there. So it'll have the newest, and CentOS will
> > probably be more stable because of it.
> > --
>
> I would say, this depends very much on how active your provider and/or
> you are in terms
> of keeping your system maintained.   Having old versions of software,
> no matter how
> stable, on a server, is probably not such a good idea.
>
>      I'm running FC4, having transitioned from FC3.   I've been
> impressed with how stable
> and well supported it is.   FC4 is definitely a better choice than FC3
> if you are going to
> be working with the SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) extensions enabled
> (generally a good idea for a server)
>
>      Cheers, Djun
>
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