Tom Diehl wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, David Fletcher wrote:
At 00:40 05/10/2006, you wrote:
I was just speculating how hard it would be to turn my Fedora
box (which is up all the time) into the central system all
my other computers go to for information (smtp, dns, imap, dhcp,
etc).
This is something I also fancy doing sometime, but I would question
whether Fedora is the best distribution for the purpose. What is
needed IMHO is something that once set up will be extremely stable
and won't need to be upgraded for a long time. Because of the
relatively rapid fire release cycle of Fedora it is great for the
desktop where you want all the latest stuff but not necessarily for a
server.
Ubuntu Server is currently promising, I think, a five year support
period, so that is the one we are currently looking at for a new
engineering department server at work. I've got it experimentally set
up on what used to be my desktop PC, serving files and some queues
for networked printers via Samba. I've not tried setting up email
services yet - that's also something I want to try to learn to do in
the future. I'm keeping notes on what I've done to it so far to set
it up, if you want to see these just email me off list and I'll send
the file over to you.
Since you are already using fedora, you might want to look at Centos.
That is
a rebuild of RHEL. 7 year support IIRC.
Regards,
I haven't had any trouble at all with using FC as my central server. I
have 13 systems at home (10 desktops/servers) and 3 laptops and 2 of my
Fedora boxes act as central servers for files/home directories, dns,
smtp, dhcp, etc. The rapid release schedule doesn't really bother me or
those servers. I always upgrade my backup first, make sure everything
works, then upgrade the primary. I don't see the problem with the
release schedule except possibly in the case of a serious
production-level system.
But that's just me.
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
