David G. Mackay wrote:
Fedora seems to be getting away from this, but one of the selling points
for Slackware used to be that you could take some of the older hardware
that wouldn't be able to handle the latest Microsoft OS, and still do
useful things with it under Linux.
Centos 3.x is still a moderately good choice for this. In fedora terms
it would be very, very similar to FC1 (2.4 kernel, etc.) but still
getting updates.
I was thinking of updating my firewall/router box to Centos 4.6. Do you
have any thoughts/warnings on this?
It will work, but I don't see any compelling reason to choose it now.
5.x is newer/better and still old enough not to expect any surprises.
3.x is smaller, less bloated but still supported with updates. If you
run any other services on your gateway box (mail/web/ftp/file shares,
etc.) you might like SME server (http://www.contribs.org), though. I
think it is still based on Centos 4.x code - but managed with a simple
web interface.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
