Preferred Distribution

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To be honest, even on a RHES4 server I recently built, I did not rely on any of the installed packages, and built the whole system including perl etc directly from source.  This meant I knew exactly what perl modules and software were in use.  Plus, was able to stream line a lot of the packages ie. perl and PHP.

On Fri, 11 May 2007 09:48:01 +0100, "Randal, Phil" <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk> wrote:
> I'd use CentOS 5 , not 4, if you're planning to use FuzzyOcr.
> 
> netpbm is way too old on CentOS /RHEL 4, and you have to mess about with
> FuzzyOcr's scansets to get it to work properly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
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> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Pete Russell
>> Sent: 10 May 2007 14:21
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Preferred Distribution
>> 
>> Fedora? They do not have support lifecycle suitable for corporate 
>> clients (espe ones using external linux skills), IMO.
>> 
>> CentOS is the logical choice. Hassle free, you know 
>> mailscanner is going 
>> to work nicely on it - its RHAS...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>> > 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 :(
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