[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > chester c young said: >> does anyone have recomendation for linux distro? putting up new dual >> opteron box. will be doing courier mail plus Apache / postgresql / >> php. ideally will run same on notebook, development server, backup >> server, and eventual offload/mirror server. > > I'm upgrading my Courier box in a few weeks (read: as soon as > I can get my boss to release the funds). I also plan to use > a dual Opteron setup with plenty (6-8 gigs) ram and ~100gigs > RAID10 storage. I plan to use the soon to be released RedHat > Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64. I'm currently using RHEL3 and > have been extremely pleased with it's performance, stability > and easy update system. RHEL4 should also be quite stable as > it's built off of Fedora Core 2/3. Security updates and > support will also be made available until 2012. We're a > educational institution so we can pickup a RHEL4 Advanced > Server for $50 but if the commercial price tag is to large > for you, consider looking at one of the RHEL clones like > CentOS or Whitebox. They should be releasing RHEL4 clones > soon after RH puts the SRPMS on the website and they can > compile them. I believe Sam develops on Fedora Core 2 or 3 > so it is a well supported platform. > I cannot recommend using CentOS or Tao Linux if you intend to build RPMs. It does not work "out-of-the-box", and I still have not figured out exactly what's wrong. If you plan to install by compiling directly from the source, then I'm sure they'd work just fine, but I prefer using RPMs, so I'm headed back to Fedora Core 2, or maybe even 1...
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