Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[mattboston at gmail.com (Matt Shields)]

RHEL 4, which comes out shortly, has the 2.6 kernel, SELinux and other
features.  CentOS is following the RH beta closely and already has
builds of the RHEL4 betas, so when the final comes out, our compile
should be out shortly after.

And for those who suggest Whitebox, I hate say is basically dead. 
It's one developer supporting the whole project, who when his work
demands goes AWOL for weeks or months at a time.  Most people running
Whitebox are converting over to CentOS since we get packages out
within 24-48 hours of when RedHat releases the sources.

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:10:14 -0500, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> IMHO, when choosing a distro for corporate 24x7 servers, I would definitely
> go with either Red Hat or SuSE. One issue we were having was with
> scalability. Red Hat's Enterprise server uses the 2.4 kernel that does not
> scale well above 4 processors. The 2.6 kernel does well up to 16. SuSE's
> SLES 9 uses the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> While one issue is suport for Linux itself from the Linux vendors, another
> is support from the server manufacturer. I cannot speak for IBM, but HP
> fully supports both SLES  and RHEL on their 32-bit and 64-bit servers.
> 
> 
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