Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:26, Matt Shields wrote:
> 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.
RHEL is projected for something like June. 
But, the current 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL does have some patches that enhance 
scalability. 

However, I feel that if a business is going to deploy a supported server, 
then the backup and test boxes should be running the same release. This 
would eliminate CentOS et. al. Especially in a Windows-Centric company, it 
is probably not a good idea to introduce a hodge podge of different 
systems. I would say, chose the server SW vendor (SuSE or Red Hat). Then, 
stick with the same vendor for the desktop systems. In the case of Red Hat, 
Fedora. As the business becomes more Linux-aware, then the use of more 
cutting edge systems may be good. The objective is to get a good solid 
foothold. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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