Hi, > I don't know if you don't care about the following, or don't know about > it: > > When it comes to servers, it's a major pain to have to update the > operating system, and software, on a regular basis. And Fedora has a > very short lifespan. Leaving you with having to keep on backing up and ... Yes, thanks, I should have mentioned that I was already aware of the short lifespan and the constant need for updates with fedora. None of the servers I will be building will have Xorg installed, so this should make upgrading significantly easier, should I choose the fedora path. This is a pretty critical server in the role that it will be implemented, so stability is a concern, but it's really only performing basic email and web functions which are pretty well tested in fedora. A few other general notes/observations: - Are there improvements made to RHEL beyond what is available in the most stable version of fedora? Does RHEL effectively use the same kernel as some version of fedora? In other words, once the kernel has been time-tested on fedora, doesn't it become the basis for the RHEL kernel? Are there kernel, filesystem, or memory tuning improvements that don't ever appear in fedora? - I think if it was just a matter of stripping out the trademark stuff, CentOS would be released much more closely to the RHEL release than it is, so I suspect there is more to it than that. - It appears RH does not add new features through the seven year lifespan of RHEL, only security and bug fixes, so I would most likely have to upgrade more frequently anyway. In other words, the hardware I install RHEL on initially won't be the hardware I'm using seven years later. - I believe the fedora lifespan for security updates is at least a couple of years, correct? - Much of the focus for RHEL seems to be on virtual machines, not installing on the bare metal. Is that correct? What is a "socket" as referred to in the RHEL subscription information? Does this just mean an available processor on the server for that virtual machine? Thanks, Alex -- 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
