OT Advice for server reinstalation

[Randal, Phil]

The CentosPlus yum repo has php-5.0.4, so that's not such a big problem.
I also use Dag Wieers' yum repo (for RHEL 4) with Centos 4.2 with no
problems.

Centos 4 support is until 2012, so it is a wise choice for enterprise
boxes, though you could use the Fedora Legacy project to extend the life
of your Fedora Core systems.

I don't think it's at all wise installing an OS whose projected support
timescale expires before your hardware is due for replacement.  Looks at
all those Windows 2000 boxes in our comms room and sighs...

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Thom Jones
> Sent: 24 February 2006 14:30
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: OT Advice for server reinstalation
> 
> I've had very good luck with CentOS (www.centos.org).  
> Essentially, it is a RedHat clone.  I'm running it on similar 
> hardware (512Mb, though) and it works great.  Security 
> updates notifications are fairly automated with up2date 
> although I haven't been totally satisfied with some of the 
> package releases (supplied php version is still 4.3.9) but 
> that can be gotten around, obviously, with doing your own builds.
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
> Behalf Of Pavel 
> > Zichovsky
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:14 AM
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: OT Advice for server reinstalation
> > 
> > Hi There!
> > 
> > My old RedHat 7 on server is comming to end of life, as some things 
> > are not working correctly (but vital services like mail 
> server and MS 
> > are still runing OK) so I am preparing for clean neew OS install on 
> > same (old) hardware.
> > 
> > HW is pretty old, it is PIII900 with 256MB RAM, SCSI HDDs on Mylex 
> > AcceleRAID 170 PCI RAID Controller (one RAID0 array) (Yes, 
> I know that 
> > 256MB is low, but it realy was enough in our enviroment, swaping 
> > occured only in rare occasions.) I can't get new HW, have 
> to use this 
> > one.
> > 
> > I am asking for advice which Linux distribution and products to use.
> > 
> > Distribution have to be completely free (fully downloadable from 
> > internet), must be rpm compatible (or other packaging 
> system, but rpm 
> > is preffered), must support my old HW (with RAID card), 
> must be "admin 
> > friendly" as I am not "big linux guru".
> > 
> > Main Services which will be run on server (which are 
> running also now) 
> > Sendmail POP3/IMAP (what to use here? Dovecot?
> > Courrier? Something else?) Apache MailScanner SpamAssassin 
> MailWatch 
> > Samba WebMin MySQL FireBird
> > 
> > DHCP, DNS and firewall are running on other servers
> > 
> > I am thinking of Fedora Core 4 distribution. But I am open 
> for other 
> > suggestion from more knowlegeable people here.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for suggestions.
> > 
> > With regards
> > Pavel Zichovsky (zichovsky at trul)
> >  
> > 
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