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[Scott Wolpow]

Ideally I need the RHEL 4 environment as my current servers are running 
them for now.
I am planing working on optimizing the platform and customizing for my 
needs.
Later I will move to a platform of my choice.
Scott Wolpow
On 11/15/2009 12:03 AM, Gary Mort wrote:
> Dunno about your specific need, but here is my opinion on linux 
> flavors for servers:
>
> CENTOS - has some nasty little gotcha's due to their default 
> configuration and emphasis on security.  Install packages for std web 
> dev packages are years out of date requiring you to use non-secure 
> repositories or compile on your own to have up to date good.  Not good 
> for the small company.  Can provide professional level support needed 
> by mid to large companies.
>
> Ubuntu - good overall mix of packages, slightly offputting user 
> command line tools, but overall quite good.  As long as you have a 
> decent linux community to bounce questions off of, my choise of OS for 
> server.
>
> Fedora - not the greatest server, but many of the benefits of CENTOS 
> without the years out of date part.  Good for those coming from a 
> windows background to pickup and use.  Requires a somewhat beefier 
> server than Ubuntu unless you really know what your doing when you 
> choose what parts to install.  I just take everything and let it eat 
> hard drive space.
>
> That's it.  I used to have a slight preference for Debian over Ubuntu, 
> but there are more how to's for what I want to do for Ubuntu so that 
> gave it the edge.
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Scott Wolpow <scott at wolpow.com 
> <mailto:scott at wolpow.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have to run a local server with RHEL 4
>     1) Should I just get RHEL 5 and ignore the differences?
>     2) Use CENTOS [I want to master the RHEL directory structure, so
>     this may be an issue]
>     3) Where can I get a safe copy of RHEL 4
>     4) Should I just use Fedora [Which may not be that stable]
>     Thanks
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>     *Scott Wolpow*
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