Question about Linux Distros

[Tedman Eng]

Given the choice of running RHEL vs Fedora in an enterprise environment, I
would choose RHEL, no contest.  Any single release of Fedora won't be
supported/maintained 12 months from now, whereas RHEL will recieve
back-ported security updates for 5 years forward.  For a recomended platform
for an enterprise monitoring system, security, maintenance, and stability
are main selling points.  Fedora is a great, free, cutting edge, community
supported distro.  With Fedora, I'd be scared of it changing under my feet
by the time I installed it.  Are you backporting/self-compiling the latest
security fixes, kernel patches, etc?  Or is it worth $150 of your time to
have engineers at RedHat do that for you for an entire year.

I use Fedora on some of my desktop machines, but for servers I perfer RHEL
for those reasons.


> From: Sand Philipp [mailto:Philipp.Sand at sycor.de]
> 
> 
> We run Nagios on Fedora Core 2 without any Problems so far...
> Why wouldn't you recommend it to run Nagios on Fedora?
> 
> > 
> > All 3 Linux distros you mention run Nagios equally well.  The only
> > difference being the Nagios packages, which are all 3rd 
> party.  If I had
> > to
> > vote, I'd put RHEL (not Fedora) 1st, Debian 2nd, and Suse 3rd.
> > 
> > My bias towards RedHat is due to their enterprise-friendly Kickstart
> > Installer (which is not necessarily nagios related)
> > 
> > Debian probably has better repositories, but you're only 
> installing once
> > and
> > leaving the repositories alone after that.  Besides, you'll 
> probably want
> > to
> > keep a copy of the packages that got installed, so in case 
> of a disaster
> > you
> > can recover to the same version, which a repository won't 
> always keep
> > around.


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