1/6 Debian or Fedora for a corporate server? Discuss. Show work.
\_ FreeBSD
\_ I agree that FreeBSD is a far better choice in terms of
stability (notwithstanding soda's hick-ups), performance
and security. But if you have to use Linux and the only
two choices are Debian and Fedora, debian is preferable
b/c it is far easier to install a minial debian system
and keep it upto date in terms of security and reliabi-
lity patches.
The problem w/ Debian is that many commercial vendors
(my company included) do not support running their sw
on Debian. If a vendor only supports RH, it is worth
spending the extra money to buy RHEL. If you can't
afford RHEL ES, try running the software on the CentOS
equivalent before going to Fedora. Fedora has way too
many bleeding edge components and probably will not
give you the type of stability you want for a corporate
server. [ Although we support our server software on
Fedora, we strongly recommend that customers use RHEL
ES b/c those customers who have used Fedora to run our
software have always run into numerous problems w/ net,
raid, scsi, &c. ]
If you are looking to buy a server w/ the OS installed,
consider an XServe w/ MacOS X Server 10.4. I have an
XServe and I find it to be a very nice system.
\_ I am not limited to fedora or debian but this is a startup
company so we do things as cheap as possible. I would
prefer freeBSD as well but it is unclear what applications
we will be running in the future and so I would rather
be a bit more flexible with Linux. CentOS I had never heard
of so I think that will be a good choice.
\_ Low-end servers are not that expensive. FreeBSD is rock-
solid and nad good hardware support, as well as being
very reliable for many of the "normal" types of apps
small companies are likely to run. Consider it. -John
\_ CentOS -- easier to convince the droids
\_ Hrm does debian even have an offical 64 bit version of Xeon? Fedora
does...
\_ I think it's crazy to run Fedora on a production server. It
moves way too quickly. CentOS or RHEL make much more sense.
Debian is also reasonable. -tom
\_ I second RHEL, and even that moves almost too fast.
\_ How about X/OS? (Free RHEL)
\_ Sounds like the same concept as CentOS, but CentOS looks
a lot more active. -tom
\_ Windows of course.
\_ This may be of some use to you; The Linux Distro Chooser:
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