Preferred Distribution

[Daniel Maher]

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> Sent: May 10, 2007 9:01 AM
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> Subject: Preferred Distribution
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having to setup a couple of new mailservers where I am working on
> contract at the moment, using Dell SC1435 rack mounts.  The problem is
> that RedHat ES4 kernel is so old does not recognise the SAS RAID card.
> 
> Now my question is should I get them to purchase RHES5, or go for either
> CentOS or Fedora ?
> 
> Personally I would use Gentoo or Ubuntu, but they are really *not* happy
> in using either of them for a corporate system :(

At my (reasonably large multi-national) company, we've started using CentOS for all of our new machines, and will likely continue to do so.  We don't need RedHat's telephone support, nor do we care to use up2date, ergo the benefits of using RedHat over CentOS are almost non-existent.  

YMMV, of course - especially if you're at a smaller organisation where phone support might come in handy, or where you don't manage your own software repository.

0.02$


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