On Jul 29, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, John Hall wrote:
>
>> There doesn't seem to be any drooling linux advocacy.
>
> I was puzzled at the suggestion to use Fedora Core, though. That's
> more or less a testbed - participation in which will commit you to
> regular OS upgrades, since old versions don't get supported.
Basically, FC is less stale. Personally, I prefer to run the latest
stuff. Odds are that it has less bugs in it, which makes for a more
stable machine that an old OS/app.
Also, FC makes it easy to keep things updated. You can build your own
repository, make all the machines update from that. This way you can
restrict releasing things to your production machines to only the
packages you've tested. I like the control. I like the newness. The
lack of cobwebs.
For stuff like an Oracle DB, sure - run it on RHEL. Definitely. For a
webserver or a mailserver that is going to sit with 20 of its friends
behind a load balancer? Doesn't matter what you run. Run whatever you
can keep updated easily and is low cost to maintain. For me, thats FC.
As far as exim goes, it'll run on anything. The reason I said 'I use
exim on FC on IBM hardware' originally, is because I'd just built that
solution for a customer, and they're very happy with it, thank you very
much ;)
Drooling linux advocacy? No. Recommending stuff that I've tried and
tested over the past year? Yes.
Definitely do whatever you're comfortable with and what works for you.
Nathan.
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