On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:22, Nathan Grennan wrote: > I have actually had better luck with Fedora on production servers. A > few months ago I started converting machines from Fedora to CentOS for > the slower pace and longer updates. It wasn't my personal choice, but > CentOS fit with what my boss expected. > > At first it went really well. Then I ran into a server with an old > raid controller. The CentOS 4.x kernel doesn't support it out of the > box. You have to hand compile it for each new kernel. Where as CentOS 3 > and Fedora do. RHEL 4 would have the same problem though. Then I had one > server running CentOS oops, but didn't get enough of the it to track it > down. The next day I had another server running CentOS hang. Neither has > repeatedly since then. Centos 3.x is still a good server choice. I've always considered linux kernels to be stable around version x.x.20 or so. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
