On 06/05/2011 07:42 PM, Alex wrote: > 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... The big benefit of RHEL is stability, not performance. For you, this probably means a *lot* less time spent administering the system. Fedora releases have a support (i.e. security updates and bug fixes) lifespan of about a year; for RHEL it's 7 years. This means that even if you skip every other Fedora release, you're likely to do about 5 Fedora version upgrades during a lifetime of a RHEL release. Every one of those versions can potentially introduce configuration file changes or other incompatibilities that will require you to figure out how to set up some aspect of your system again. (Or they may not; there's really no way to know.) > 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? CentOS 5.6 was released several months after RHEL 5.6, and CentOS 6 still hasn't been released. (RHEL 6.1 was just recently released.) As they say in the investment business, "past performance is no guarantee of future results." I don't think anyone can really say with confidence what the future holds for any of the distributions that are derived from RHEL sources. (For the sake of full disclosure, I do work for Red Hat. Hopefully, everything I've written above is relatively uncontroversial.) -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx "If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first." ======================================================================== -- 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
