On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Kshitiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Help me solve this puzzle based on your varied preferences: Yes, we deploy > High Availability file server and mirror for small & medium enterprises, so > yes: production environment. > > 1. CentOS or Debian?
Personally, I am comfortable with both distros. Debian has a huge repository of packages ( > 25K) whereas CentOS is based on upstream source RPM that are part of the RHEL. The default package list is enough for most server type installation. There are "add-on" repos for CentOS. Both distros have point releases to support newer hardware. > 2. HCL problems? Fedora 10 doesn't work on Intel 3430 Motherboard with DDR3, > simply gives out syncloss display. How frequently do these OS support new > hardware? Fedora 10 is obsolete. The Fedora support cycle is 18 month IIRC. For production servers you should use server class hardware and a distribution with LTS. Check with the vendor for HCL. The big three are reasonably good at support for RHEL and Novell SLES. Find the equivalent kernel in Debian or CentOS and the chances are pretty good either distro will install. HTH -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
