David Gomillion said: > [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...
Fedora is entirely wrong for a production server IMHO, unless you plan to keep it on the latest Fedora release (which would mean lots of down time). FC2 is due for EOL March 21st, not a very good lifetime for an install and FC3 may likely reach EOL before this time next year. Currently, Fedora end of life's a release once a new version plus the second test release for the next version are out (i.e. FC1 reached EOL when FC3 reached test2, FC2 will reach EOL when FC4 test2 is released, etc). FedoraLegacy has not done as good of a job as I had hoped in keeping security issues in EOLed RedHat releases patched. Again, I have no experience with CentOS or Tao but I've had relatively few problems with RHEL3 official. Maybe WhiteBox is doing a better job of maintaining 100% compat. with RHEL3? I've also played with RHEL4 beta 2 and had no trouble compiling the latest Courier on it. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
