On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:19:48AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Graham Cossey schrieb: > > >I'm thinking about FC4 but as this is a development/test server the > >primary objective is that anything running on this MUST also run on > >the live server installed with RH3 ES-13.8.3 > > > >I will of course ensure that the versions of PHP and MySQL etc match > >the live server. > > Probably it is then best to get CentOS 3, which is an RHEL3 "clone". > RHEL3 is based on ancient Red Hat Linux 9 and thus any Fedora release > will be more or less different. > Is the intended hardware RHEL3 certified? It then will run using CentOS > 3 too. +1 for CentOS3, as that's closest to the environment you'll be deploying into. Red Hat also offers developer subscriptions for RHEL, something like $300/year for 5 entitlements, RHN etc. So it's not terribly expensive to develop and test using the exact same bits that you'll use for deployment. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
