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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:42:21 +1000 (EST)
From: Noel Butler To: David Beveridge Cc: Troy Davis, Aussie-Isp Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210081933540.3918-100000@auschat.net> In-Reply-To: <008301c26ea6$1a8cd960$034aa8c0@nass3> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] New Server |
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Gentlemen, On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David Beveridge wrote: > > > 3. Red Hat 8 seems to be much better for desktop use, Would it also be > > > better as a server than say Red hat 7.3 > > > > Never ever ever ever ever use RH version X.0 on production boxes, it's > > not as bad but still avoid if you can X.1, if you can wait for X.2, or in > > the latest collection 7.3 use it. > > X.0 is always a beta with bugs, X.1 most the bugs are ironed out, but > still > > a few, and X.2 is generally accepted as production, RH themselves used > > to advise people never to use X.0 in production situations. > > > Not so, RedHat 7.0 was the last stable release of the 2.2 kernel and > we have several of these in production. I've seen a few running 7.0 and heard they've had problems, for years RedHat always maintained never use .0 in production, most people I've spoken to have agreed, I'd rather be safe than sorry. Especially if the guys who put it out warn not to use it :) But yes it might be stable for you, I still have a 6.2 box because its stable, all the rest run 7.3 and seem happy. > the kernel modules you need for 2.4, if the box will be doing NAT, > you might not be able to support things that were supported via modules > under 2.2 eg: rtsp, vdolive, irc, pptp, quake, ipsec, icq, h323, ftp, > cuseeme. A true server wont be doing NAT :) and for what Troy indicated he wont need any of the above. > 2.4 kernel has some significant improvements notably journaling file > systems, > and iptables instead of ipchains. Use 7.0 if you need 2.2 kernel as > standard, > or 7.3 otherwise. yep 7.3 has ext3 filesystem. -- Regards, Noel Butler Auschat Internet L.C.P No. 251002 |-----------------------------------------------------------| |This Email may contain privileged information and remains | |the property of the author. You may not reveal the contents| |to anyone without the authors express authority to do so. | |-----------------------------------------------------------| ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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