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<a style="color:#3465A4" href="http://feeds.runyourownserver.org/~r/runyourownserver/~5/97327624/ryos-podcast-episode0005.mp3">http://feeds.runyourownserver.org/~r/runyourownserver/~5/97327624/ryos-podcast-episode0005.mp3</a>
<ul><li dir="ltr">Fedora Project history. RHEL Beta?
</li><li dir="ltr">connection between RHEL - Fedora Project - Community
</li><li dir="ltr">Fedora release cycle
</li><li dir="ltr">Why is Fedora good as a server?
</li><li dir="ltr">Fedora installation process
<ul><li dir="ltr">sneak peak of RHEL
</li><li dir="ltr"><a style="color:#204A87" href="#selinux">SELinux</a> - suggested to be disabled
</li><li dir="ltr">LVM - explanation what is used for, but they don't use it and they personally disable it
</li><li dir="ltr"><a style="color:#204A87" href="#firewall">Firewall</a> - turned off because they make custom <a style="color:#204A87" href="#firewall">firewall</a> scripts
</li><li dir="ltr"><a style="color:#204A87" href="#selinux">SELinux</a> - explanation of functionality, bad experience with it
</li></ul></li><li dir="ltr">lockdowns on new installed fedora box
<ul><li dir="ltr">chkconfig --list
</li><li dir="ltr">never run runlevel 5 on server! No X!
</li><li dir="ltr">dislike for lots of services running by default
</li><li dir="ltr">chkconfig --level 345 <service> off
</li><li dir="ltr">block ssh access to fixed IP address or host
</li><li dir="ltr">denyhosts and allowhosts
</li></ul></li><li dir="ltr">fedora updates
<ul><li dir="ltr">yum updates
</li><li dir="ltr">repositories
</li><li dir="ltr">reload fedora every 6 months because of release cycle :(
</li><li dir="ltr">end of live for fedora - 1 year, nightmare if you have lots of fedora boxes
</li></ul></li><li dir="ltr">Conclusion
<ul><li dir="ltr">you can see what will RHEL look like in 2-3 years
</li><li dir="ltr">not recommended for producion server
</li><li dir="ltr">good for workstation</li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li dir="ltr">Log files
<ul><li dir="ltr">general discussion about log files, unrelated to fedora</li></ul></li></ul></div></body></html>