Linux On Servers

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:15 -0500, John Westcott IV wrote:
> What distro of Linux are people running on their production servers?
> Does anyone run open distros (like OpenSuSE or Fedora) on production 
> servers?
> I am looking at a new HP server and wondering if the support of a 
> commercial distro is worth it.

Hi John,

I'm part of a research group and we run basically all of our servers
(NFS, NIS, web, email, compute clusters, etc.), hundreds of compute
nodes, and dozens of desktops using Fedora.  And we're generally happy
with it.  For folks used to the "old" (9 and earlier) Red Hat, its a
very familiar environment.  And Fedora is the development vehicle for
RHEL, so its easy to move between the two.

IMO, the major down-side to Fedora is the fairly short lifespan of each
version.  If you can deal with that, its a great distro.  If you need
the longer-term guaranteed bug and security fixes then you should
consider RHEL, commercial SuSE versions, etc.

Ed

ps - I'm horribly biased.  :-)  I'm a volunteer within the Extras 
     part of the Fedora project where I help package and review 
     mostly science/engineering applications.


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