On 6/5/2011 5:42 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of building a mail server and considering CentOS, > fedora, or RHEL. If I chose the RHEL option, I would probably choose > the minimal support level. > > This server will be performing basic mail functions, including > postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, and webmail/squirrelmail. It will be a > moderately active server, delivering as many as 80k emails per day. > > For something like this, will there be a great performance benefit to > using RHEL over fedora? Is the kernel that much different that it > would make a significant difference? Both would use ext4 for the > filesystem. Both would use the same spamassassin and postfix > versions... > > Are the benefits to using the KVM/qemu virtual machine features on > RHEL 6.x that much better than what's available in fedora15? > > I recall reading that CentOS is having trouble keeping up with the > latest RHEL. Is this currently a problem? Any input on whether future > updates will be delayed as well? > > Thanks for any ideas. > > Alex I used to run RHEL and about six months ago switched to Fedora. I run my wife's Web site and her e-mail server on it and have had no problems! If RHEL is going to go to Gnome 3, I will stay with Fedora! Mike -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
