I find Fedora Core2 a great, stable, distro that's well-suited to a hobbyist or home PC. However, it's got a very short release and maintenance cycle, so it's really not a great choice for a server OS unless you plan on taking it down for upgrades at least once or twice a year. For servers you should look at one of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux rebuilds. Since RHEL is built on totally Open Source software, anyone is free to take their sources, remove the trademarked bits like pictures and compile and distribute a near-identical system. I've been using Whitebox Linux ( http://www.whiteboxlinux.org ) for some time now and I find it great. An interesting note about it is that the project is run by administrators of the Beauregard Parish Library in DeRidder, LA. I can install any bit of software that expects Red Hat or RHEL and have it work just as expected. Basically you're running a copy of RHEL without the need for a support contract, and still totally free and totally legal. I have it on several production servers and it runs great. There are other rebuild projects like cAos ( http://www.caosity.org ) but I haven't spent much time looking at them myself.
-Tim James Kuhns wrote: >Others have probably asked this already but I must have missed it. > >Does anyone have a recommendation on another distro that is layed out like >RedHat? > >I'm about to remove my RedHat 9.0 box from my network since RedHat dropped >support. I've been using RedHat for years and really don't have the time >right now to fumble with a completely new distro so I was thinking of going >to Fedora Core 2 as a replacement. How close is the Fedora project's stuff >to the RedHat distro (also how stable)? I'm mainly concerned about the >directory layout, init system, and package system. > >Basically, I'm looking to setup a machine with apache, qmail, bind, openssh, >openssl, and a few dev tools. I'm seriously considering not installing X at >all since I don't use the machine as a desktop and can't even remember the >last time I opened it. > >James > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
