Re: Update of a remote server
- From: General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:23:15 -0600
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:41:33 +0100, Sylvain wrote:
General Schvantzkopf wrote on 18/02/2008 23:12:
Fedora 7 is still supported so there is no reason to upgrade your
server to F8, just do a yum -y update to get the updates to 7.
as explained it what I did.
When you do get
around to putting on a new distro I would suggest that you switch to
CentOS5. Fedora is the wrong choice for a server that you can't lay
your hands on easily.
just your own feeling ?
a lot of data-center rent shared or dedicated servers running FC.
You need a distro that will be supported for years, CentOS5 will be
supported for at least another 5 years.
the server is contracted on a yearly basis.
Sylvain.
The reason for using a stable distro on a server is that it minimizes the
amount of work that you have to do to keep it working. Fedora is great if
you don't mind the work it takes to maintain it. Fedora is only supported
for a year, the RPM repositories frequently break because they have a
cavalier attitude about introducing dependency conflicts, there are
hundreds of megabytes of updates per week, and there is no way to
reliably upgrade from one version to the next. A stable distro like
CentOS, which is RHEL, is maintained for seven years from the date of the
introduction of the RHEL version. That means that you never have to worry
about doing an upgrade. The only updates are bug fixes and security
patches which reduces the number of updates by a couple of orders of
magnitude, I just did an update on my CentOS5 machine, there were 2
updates totaling 2MB, I updated one of my Fedora 8 machines last night
and there were 140 updates, and that machine had been updated a few days
ago so those 140 were new in that last three days. I've also never seen
the kinds of dependency conflicts in CentOS that are routine in Fedora,
that's because Redhat is careful about what they introduce into RHEL. The
thing that their customers are paying them for is to eliminate the
headaches in maintaining their servers. It's a pain in the ass when you
have to resolve a dependency conflict on a single machine, but at least
it's doable, if you had 10000 machines it would be impossible.
The downside of CentOS is that it's old. CentOS5 is basically Fedora Core
6 so it will work fine on hardware that was current when FC6 was current,
but not so much on the latest hardware. However server boxes change much
more slowly and in a more compatible manner then desktop and laptop
machines so that tends not to be as much of a problem. You also don't
care about having the latest version of Gnome or the latest applications
on a server, it's running with X off so that doesn't matter. Commercial
applications are all certified for RHEL so they will always work on
CentOS and the free server applications that come with RHEL are generally
just fine.
All in all you are much better off running CentOS on a remote server than
running Fedora.
.
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