Am 17.05.2012 23:22, schrieb Timothy Murphy: >>> I don't consider Fedora suitable for a server. >> >> your opinion > > and I suspect that of most people who have to make this choice. > >> if you need a recent software stack and have to >> compile all things at your won while libraries >> are outdated you are going through hell > > I find CentOS-6 has everything I need on a server. > I don't feel any urge to re-compile libraries. > I have complete confidence that RedHat will do this for me if necessary. > If I want to do anything fancy I do it on a laptop.
currently this may be true version 6 is quite recent but what in 5 years? if you need newer PHP, MySQL, Postfix, DBmail, Apache you have a problem even with compile it at your own because you can not solve build-deps caused by the large jumps you can usually not upgrade a CentOS installation and having a lot of machines and renstall them all few years is not funny on the other hand i have here 20 fedora servers which are beoming more over the time based on the same goldenmaster with a identical coresystem installed with F9 and currently on F16, they are all hardly tuned and optimizd for exatcly their needs and replace hardware is a single click to move them uninterrupted dist-upgrades are a topic in virtual environments as i installed them all you needed VMware Tools for basic paravirtualized hardware which is in the meantime in the upstream.kernel another example now for phyical hardware: kernel 3.4 will support replace a RADI10 with bigger disks and expand the RAID volumes - you will never see this in CentOS6, with fedora in a few weeks it is possible
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