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

[puregin]

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