[ale] Is "9" the latest & recommended version of Fedora Server ?

[Jim Kinney]

CentOS has a 7 year lifetime for security and bug fixes. Fedora has a 2
releases lifetime about 1 year total).

The latest and greatest CentOS is 5.2 (with 5.3 in the beta cooker right
now). It tracks RedHat EL releases very closely.  I currently have system
deployed that have Centos 4.4-5.2 and they all have updateable support
features (i.e.- yum update will do what it's supposed to do).

There is a 32-bit i386  and 64-bit x86_64 version that will run just fine on
a AMD64 dual processor system. If you have 4GB RAM or less, the 32-bit is
fine. If the RAM is bigger or the data sets being crunched are larger, the
64-bit version will work fine.



2008/8/24 Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net>

>  Jim,
>
> First, thank you.
>
> Why does CentOS NOT require "total OS upgrades" ?
>
> What incarnation of CentOS do you recommend ?
>
> Does all this matter if I run under an AMD64 dual processor ?
>
> Appreciatively,
>
> Courtney
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> *To:* ale at ale.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:08 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Is "9" the latest & recommended version of Fedora
> Server ?
>
> Fedora 9 is the latest release of Fedora. If you are setting up a server
> and don't want to hassle with constant total OS upgrades, check out CentOS
> instead. It is based on the source rpms from RedHat EL.
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Courtney Thomas <
> courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Any caveats or recommendations as to installation & setup ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Courtney
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