Hi all, I hope I'm not starting a flame war. I'm installing Centos 4.2 for a mail server. I've been experimenting with, Centos before, and now wanting to put it into a real action as mail server. Can someone pls tell me the up and down between Centos and FC? I'm familiar with FC4 and some things that I like from it: 1. The available packages are abundant. Very easy to find packages for FC4. 2. The user list is very active and friendly too. Thank you -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 16:34:47 up 8:26, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
On 22/02/06, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id> wrote:> Hi all, > I hope I'm not starting a flame war. > I'm installing Centos 4.2 for a mail server. I've been experimenting with, > Centos before, and now wanting to put it into a real action as mail server. > > Can someone pls tell me the up and down between Centos and FC? > I'm familiar with FC4 and some things that I like from it: > 1. The available packages are abundant. Very easy to find packages for FC4. > 2. The user list is very active and friendly too.The main advantage to running an EL distribution like CentOS is the release cycle. FC4 will be EOL in, what, about a year after its release? That means no more official updates apart from those provided by Fedora Legacy for as long as they choose to support it. Updates for CentOS 4 should be available for another 5 years or something like that. This allows you to manage servers without having to constantly rebuild them in a running-to-keep-up fashion, or leaving them to rot unmaintained and potentially insecure. Which is what will can if you run FC on more than a handful of servers. CentOS might not have quite the abundance of packages FC has but for a server you generally don't need the latest and greatest of everything. Servers are there to do a job, as long as they accomplish this reliably and securely that's all you need. If you absolutely need package X then between RPMForge, CentOS Extras/Plus/Test and Jpackage you should be pretty much covered. Failing that, grab the SRPM for FC3/4 and try rebuilding for CentOS. Will.
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 4:35 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote:> Can someone pls tell me the up and down between Centos and FC? > I'm familiar with FC4 and some things that I like from it: > 1. The available packages are abundant. Very easy to find packages for FC4. > 2. The user list is very active and friendly too.1. There is a decent selection of software for CentOS / RHEL. Especially commercial software. If you are brave, many Fedora Core 3 packages will work on CentOS 4. However, if you are looking for the newest mp3 player or latest version of bzflag, fedora will most likely have it, CentOS won't. 2. There's a much smaller CentOS user base (I suspect). However, the HUGE amount of documentation, training classes, and info on the web about RHEL applies directly to CentOS.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:35 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:> Hi all, > I hope I'm not starting a flame war. > I'm installing Centos 4.2 for a mail server. I've been experimenting with, > Centos before, and now wanting to put it into a real action as mail server. > > Can someone pls tell me the up and down between Centos and FC? > I'm familiar with FC4 and some things that I like from it: > 1. The available packages are abundant. Very easy to find packages for FC4. > 2. The user list is very active and friendly too. > > Thank youThis article explains the difference: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060222/8268f327/attachment-0001.sig>
On Thursday 23 February 2006 02:24 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:> This article explains the difference: > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdfThank you all for clearing some facts about Centos and FC. Currently, I'm not able to make any donation because my country is not listed in Paypal (because of high rate of "cyber carding" I believe). When the time comes, I will certainly participate in it. But through my site http://linux2.arinet.org, at least for now I can give back to the community by writing tutorials and articles. It's been running for about 3 years and has about 2000 registered users with a growth rate of about 5 users per day. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 12:53:47 up 4:19, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org