[PLUG] Linux Distro

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Jun 4 15:18:01 UTC 2007


On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 03:11:41PM -0700, Aaron Burt wrote:
>> I'd recommend Debian 4.0 or Centos 5.0, though any modern distro 
>> should support your hardware nicely and run the apps you want.
>
> I must differ regards CentOS 5.0 ...
>
> I am currently upgrading 7 machines (2 desktops, 2 servers, 2 
> laptops, and a firewall) to an RHEL5 clone very similar to CentOS 
> 5.0 .  I have run into lots of small broken things. [....]

As a counterpoint, I'll say that our infrastructure servers at work 
are all now running CentOS 5 x86_64 with SELinux enabled in targeted 
mode. Other than tweaking SELinux policies, everything has worked just 
fine...

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