production server

[Robert Echlin]

Asad Javid wrote:
> im planning to purchase a new dell server with 80x5 scsi harddisk and 2
> gb of ram. i am planning to install qmail+antivirus+antispam etc. can
> somebody suggest whether fedora will do fine with this or whether RHEL
> ES  has to be installed. what performance difference does RHEL ES has
> over fedora (apart from cost issues:) )

As Andre Costa says, RHEL has a longer life cycle.
If you don't mind re-installing (upgrading might work) every 6 months,
you can use RHEL, or check out the KRUD version of the Fedora distro.
They plan to keep providing maintenance upgrades for Fedora for 3 years.

Robert