Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

David G. Mackay mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 26 02:48:45 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 18:41 -0500, Les Mikesell 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?

Dave





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