[mdlug] Chaning distros

[Dan Pritts]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:14:16PM -0500, Michael Corral wrote:
> I've been using Fedora as a production server for over a year,
> acting as a mail server (sendmail), web server (Apache), database
> server (MySQL) and application server (Tomcat). It's been stable and
> reliable, haven't had a single problem yet with that system.

If your goal is to not be forced into an upgrade, i'd suggest centos
over fedora.  fedora does not provide security or other bug fixes
after about a year - and the fedora legacy project that was supposed
to be doing this has been shut down.  

Centos on the other hand is a rebuild of red hat enterprise, which
has a 7-year support cycle - centos 4 should not lose bugfix support
before february 2012.  

there is one risk - red hat might stop providing the full SRPMs required
for centos to do the rebuild, which would make the centos packagers' job
harder.  Red Hat probably won't do this IMO but you never know.

danno
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