I'm against Fedora servers for a bunch of reasons, but the most pressing is that their stability of package selection is not what I'd call spectacular.
It's much better, in my opinion, to go with something like CentOS (or Scientific Linux), which is a RHEL-clone, than with what is essentially the development branch of the Redhat line. ---Matt On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote: > On 10-12-16 08:22 AM, John BORIS wrote: > >> to upgrade one of my older Fedora servers. I go to the Web Site and it >> looks like it now Desktop centric. No where on the site do I see a >> mention of a server. Now I would assume, which is a bad thing to do, > > I just went to their web site, and I suspect they try to compete with Ubuntu > for the desktop, people tend to use Fedora, CentOS, RHEL on servers but Ubuntu > on desktops. But, on the contrary, I find the newer versions of Fedora are > even better suited for servers than the older ones. Versions 13 and 14 offer a > "minimal install" which install a very small (too small) set of packages, and > run happily with very little memory and a slow CPU. > >> that Desktop or Server it is the same thing but I worry about the >> performance or something they are leaving out. I am moving my Intranet >> site so I want to stay with Fedora as things are running fine now but I >> need to update my MySQl server and the version of Fedora I am running >> now will not allow me to upgrade it. (Way too old). Can anyone shed some >> light on this? > > I use both MySQL and PostgreSQL on a tiny Fedora server without any issue. > > Here is a list I keep of packages I install right after I do a "minimal > install". You will need more depending what your server does, but I consider > those essential for any server: > > openssh-clients > bind-utils > nfs-utils > wget > rsync > ethtool > lsof > lynx > rdiff-backup > man-db > man-pages > traceroute > mailx > ntp > dig > python3 > lspci > ntop > htop > pax > > > > -- > Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ > http://images.SollerS.ca/ > xmpp:y...@zioup.com > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
