[Freeipa-users] Best OS to use with FreeIPA?

[Peter Brown]

On 19 January 2013 05:25, Brian Topping <topping at codehaus.org> wrote:

> Hi Peter and Dimitri,
>
> Thanks for your responses.  I think I am going to bite the bullet and put
> F18 into production.  One of the elements that made that easier was
> recognizing that RHEL 7 was going to be based on Fedora of some sort, and a
> stripped-down Fedora with SELinux will be plenty secure while I wait for
> that convergence.
>

It seems that Fedora 18 will be the template for RedHat 7 so it's almost
like getting it early.


>
> Cheers!  Brian
>
> On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 01/17/2013 05:45 PM, Brian Topping wrote:
> >> Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, I looked through a few
> months of archives and the documentation and didn't find anything.
> >>
> >> What's the best OS to build a production FreeIPA instance on?  It seems
> like Fedora has more recent versions in their repositories (CentOS is still
> at 2.2.0), but I'd prefer to run CentOS as a general rule.
> >>
> >> Any quick rules of thumb that I can work from?
> >>
> >> thanks!  Brian
> >>
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> > It depends on what level of support you expect and what functionality
> > you are looking for.
> > The first distro that gets the bits is Fedora then RHEL, then CentOS
> > with gap of several months each.
> > It is up to you to choose what is best for you and what risks you are
> > willing to take in your production environment.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thank you,
> > Dmitri Pal
> >
> > Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
> > Red Hat Inc.
> >
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