Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

David G. Mackay mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 25 03:24:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:42 -0400, Mauriat M wrote:

> Well I guess I was hoping for the best of both worlds by having my
> desktop "act" as a server.  Why have 2 machines when 1 will do?
> 
> Too much to ask, I know.

Not really.  If you have sufficient resources (disk, memory, processing
power) on your desktop, then you can run fedora, and a virtual copy of
Centos (which runs just fine under kvm on F7).  If you don't have
hardware assisted virtualization, you can still run vmware, qemu, xen,
etc.

Dave





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