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On 29/05/2010 00:16, David Francis wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Maybe not the OS of choice, but the RedHat compatible OS of choice. Any stable
Enterprise class OS will work,
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I accept your point completely. While I'm going through this exercise, can you please point me to other Enterprise class OS that Admins favor? Thanks!
David
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<div class="moz-signature"><font color="#000000">If you want the
minimum of hassle and maximum reliability, there are two real choices,
Centos or Red Hat Enterprise, if you want a free one, then its Centos.</font><br>
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The thing is, unless you like wading through problems created by
libraries so far up the crest of the wave you are falling down the
other side, its best to go with an OS thats really solid and uses
libraries that are not quite so bleeding edge.<br>
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Its all about having an easy life, and most people will have tested
stuff on RedHat and/or Centos, which means if you do run into a problem
someone will almst certainly have found it before you and published a
fix.<br>
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If you want to go right out in front and use Fedora 13 (its probably 14
by the time I finish writing this LOL) .</font> <font color="#000000">Then
really you are on a hiding to nothing trying to resolve library
problems like the ones you found. Its probably not in the knowledge
base of most people here to have a fix for that, because most people
would say "wrong OS", and not even try.</font><br>
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I did not mean to be rude or too critical, but the problems you
experienced are all down to the OS, so fix the easy thing, put it on an
OS the developers would have tested it on, eg: RedHat/Centos.</font> <font
color="#000000">Its a wasted effort trying to get it to run on Fedora
13, its simply the wrong choice.</font><br>
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Centos 5.4 would be a very safe bet just now,</font> <font
color="#000000">or even 5.5, but I haven't gone there yet, I only
upgrade when a security issue, bug or feature requirement demands it, <br>
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Other than that, I install it and forget it, thats how I like my
servers to run,<br>
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Pete</font><br>
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