Preferred Distribution

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Oliver Falk wrote:

> On 05/10/2007 03:00 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>>  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,
>
> If you don't need support, there's no need for EL5.
>
>>  or go for either CentOS or Fedora ?
>
> Both is fine. Fedora should recognize it AFAIK.

I do not recommend Fedora in anything even resembling a production 
environment. I hate to install a system which will be out of security 
updates in about a year.

If you just want the system go for Centos 5 and use RHEL 5 if they want to 
spend money on support.

Hugo.

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