Re: [drupal-support] CentOS 3 Enterprise Linux or Fedora Linux Core 3?
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.
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
If they offer FreeBSD consider it instead the linux distros. ----- Original Message ----- From: "puregin" <puregin@puregin.org> To: <drupal-support@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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