Simple question... What OS is best for DA

[nieuwhier]

We are using fedora core 1 to 3 now and are planning some new servers.

We are happy about fedora but from time to time you have to look around.

So; What do you all advice...

 

[nobaloney]

This is what I call a religious argument.

But I think it's good to note that

a) DirectAdmin is built on RedHat; everything else is a port.

b) The people who create Fedora recommend not using it in an Enterprise Server Environment.

c) Fedora is fast moving and security updates for any given FC release generally become unavailable within about a year and a half.

d) RedHat Enterprise Linux is expensive and you have to pay again for it each year to get the support updates.

e) CentOS is a freely available open-source compile of the entire RedHat Enterprise Linux source tree. The CentOS folk have been enjoyed by RedHat (the company) from admitting that but I can say it. Support updates for it is guaranteed by the CentOS team for at least four years after it's released.

Make up your own mind .

Jeff

 

[nieuwhier]

jahhh you are saying things I don't want to hear


>>c) Fedora is fast moving and security updates for any given FC release generally become unavailable within about a year and a half.
In practical way this argument is one of the reasons for reconsidering...

I don't think there's much difference in configuring centus compared to fedora ?

 

[marvin]

c) Fedora is fast moving and security updates for any given FC release generally become unavailable within about a year and a half.

I thought fedora can be upgraded easily with yum upgrade? Haven't tried it yet though.

 

[nobaloney]

nieuwhier, on a server level CentOS is almost exactly the same to configure as Fedora.

RHEL (and therefore CentOS) are generally snapshots of Fedora with only minor changes, but with longer support times.

Marvin,

I don't know how easy it is to update Fedora with yum.

I just read (within the past 48 hours) an article that says Fedora is switching to use yum. So I have no idea if older versions have full yum repositories, and/or if it's easy to do version upgrades or not.

I do know that RedHat has always recommended not doing version upgrades, but instead starting from bare metal, since there can be major library dependency changes which can keep your custom installs (everything in customapache and a lot more) from running.

I didn't write that stuff about not using Fedora in an enterprise environment... I just reported it .

Jeff

 

[nieuwhier]

Have been reading the last days about centos and have decided to provide one new server with centos.

Escpacially the new versions every half year of fedora let me make this descision.