On Friday 24 March 2006 03:10 am, Matthew Stringer wrote: <snip>
Given the numbers of servers we don't want to have to upgrade the OS every 5 minutes because the distro we're using is no longer supported.
Most of our enterprise linux boxes are running Red Hat so an obvious immediate choice would be Fedora, however it seems largely a development platform for RHEL and they stop supporting old versions after 18 months which means we'd either have to upgrade all the servers to the current release (which could cause problems as upgrades do) or back port security fixes ourselves which isn't cost effective. In addition Fedora's legacy support isn't very good which runs the risks of breaking customers code.
Easy answer - CentOS. CentOS == Redhat (free version) You won't get the latest/greatest hardware compatibility (usb dual-inline-ifiniferator wma compatible smartphone video displays) but you will get the same enterprise longevity as SLES or RHE. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.