<div dir="ltr">CentOS has a 7 year lifetime for security and bug fixes. Fedora has a 2 releases lifetime about 1 year total).<br><br>The latest and greatest CentOS is 5.2 (with 5.3 in the beta cooker right now). It tracks RedHat EL releases very closely. I currently have system deployed that have Centos 4.4-5.2 and they all have updateable support features (i.e.- yum update will do what it's supposed to do).<br>
<br>There is a 32-bit i386 and 64-bit x86_64 version that will run just fine on a AMD64 dual processor system. If you have 4GB RAM or less, the 32-bit is fine. If the RAM is bigger or the data sets being crunched are larger, the 64-bit version will work fine.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/24 Courtney Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jim,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">First, thank you.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Why does CentOS NOT require "total OS upgrades"
?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What incarnation of CentOS do you recommend
?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does all this matter if I run under an AMD64 dual
processor ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Appreciatively,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Courtney</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="jim.kinney@gmail.com" href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jim
Kinney</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="ale@ale.org" href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:08
PM</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Is "9" the latest
& recommended version of Fedora Server ?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Fedora 9 is the latest release of Fedora. If you are setting up a
server and don't want to hassle with constant total OS upgrades, check out
CentOS instead. It is based on the source rpms from RedHat EL.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Courtney Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net" target="_blank">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Any
caveats or recommendations as to installation & setup ?<br><br>Thank
you,<br>Courtney<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br></div>
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