Dunno about your specific need, but here is my opinion on linux flavors for servers:
CENTOS - has some nasty little gotcha's due to their default configuration and emphasis on security. Install packages for std web dev packages are years out of date requiring you to use non-secure repositories or compile on your own to have up to date good. Not good for the small company. Can provide professional level support needed by mid to large companies. Ubuntu - good overall mix of packages, slightly offputting user command line tools, but overall quite good. As long as you have a decent linux community to bounce questions off of, my choise of OS for server. Fedora - not the greatest server, but many of the benefits of CENTOS without the years out of date part. Good for those coming from a windows background to pickup and use. Requires a somewhat beefier server than Ubuntu unless you really know what your doing when you choose what parts to install. I just take everything and let it eat hard drive space. That's it. I used to have a slight preference for Debian over Ubuntu, but there are more how to's for what I want to do for Ubuntu so that gave it the edge. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Scott Wolpow <sc...@wolpow.com> wrote: > I have to run a local server with RHEL 4 > 1) Should I just get RHEL 5 and ignore the differences? > 2) Use CENTOS [I want to master the RHEL directory structure, so this may > be an issue] > 3) Where can I get a safe copy of RHEL 4 > 4) Should I just use Fedora [Which may not be that stable] > Thanks > -- > *Scott Wolpow* > *718.275.7765* > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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