x86_64 or i386?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 02:10:55 UTC 2006
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.
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Les Mikesell
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