x86_64 or i386?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 02:10:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:22, Nathan Grennan wrote:

>   I have actually had better luck with Fedora on production servers. A 
> few months ago I started converting machines from Fedora to CentOS for 
> the slower pace and longer updates. It wasn't my personal choice, but 
> CentOS fit with what my boss expected.
> 
>   At first it went really well. Then I ran into a server with an old 
> raid controller. The CentOS 4.x kernel doesn't support it out of the 
> box. You have to hand compile it for each new kernel. Where as CentOS 3 
> and Fedora do. RHEL 4 would have the same problem though. Then I had one 
> server running CentOS oops, but didn't get enough of the it to track it 
> down. The next day I had another server running CentOS hang. Neither has 
> repeatedly since then.

Centos 3.x is still a good server choice.  I've always considered
linux kernels to be stable around version x.x.20 or so.  

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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