At 9:58 AM -0400 6/11/07, Eric wrote: >I'm setting up a server in the next few weeks that will be located remotely >(next town from here) and will be accessible 24x7 only with a fair amount >of inconvenience and wasted time (find my key card to the co-location room, >then drive 30-45 minutes each way and go through normal level of difficulty >finding someplace to park, etc.). > >The server will serve web, FTP, SSH, Subversion (via svn+ssh protocol), and >a contacts manager database called Turba running on Horde, both of which >are PHP applications that run via Apache HTTPD. > >Platform will be 1.8-GHz P4 with 512 MB RAM. Internet connection will be >via a multi-megabyte backbone (don't know exactly how fast but it's pretty >fast). > >Security is a major consideration and so I'd like to run on the "most >current" version of Fedora, i.e. F7, so that security issues can be kept up >to date. > >Is Fedora 7 "ready" for this No. Possibly FC6 is "ready", but it is approaching it's sell-by date. >or am I asking for trouble? Yes. Use a stable server distro if you need security. Security needs stability in order to find the security flaws. RHEL 5 (and CentOS 5) have SELinux, if you want it. >For the record, I have had no problems ... so far ... with F7 on VMware. You've up a local test server with F7? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
