Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

[Les Mikesell]

David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 07:25 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> One might think that if you're using a personal computer as a server,
>> that by the time a several-year lifespan OS reached end-of-life, you'd
>> probably want to be taking advantage of new hardware, as well.  So an
>> upgrade by building a new machine, copying data over to it, and swapping
>> it over for the old server, would seem the prudent way to go about it.
> 
> 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.

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   Les Mikesell
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