Linux home data center challenge :-)

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, David Fletcher wrote:

> At 00:40 05/10/2006, you wrote:
>
>> I was just speculating how hard it would be to turn my Fedora
>> box (which is up all the time) into the central system all
>> my other computers go to for information (smtp, dns, imap, dhcp,
>> etc).
>
> This is something I also fancy doing sometime, but I would question whether 
> Fedora is the best distribution for the purpose. What is needed IMHO is 
> something that once set up will be extremely stable and won't need to be 
> upgraded for a long time. Because of the relatively rapid fire release cycle 
> of Fedora it is great for the desktop where you want all the latest stuff but 
> not necessarily for a server.
>
> Ubuntu Server is currently promising, I think, a five year support period, so 
> that is the one we are currently looking at for a new engineering department 
> server at work. I've got it experimentally set up on what used to be my 
> desktop PC, serving files and some queues for networked printers via Samba. 
> I've not tried setting up email services yet - that's also something I want 
> to try to learn to do in the future. I'm keeping notes on what I've done to 
> it so far to set it up, if you want to see these just email me off list and 
> I'll send the file over to you.

Since you are already using fedora, you might want to look at Centos. That is
a rebuild of RHEL. 7 year support IIRC.

Regards,

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