CentOS or Fedora?

[Craig321]

Hi,

I've heard both are really good for servers. I'm looking to set up a server on my old 1.5GHZ IBM machine to run Lighttpd, MySQL, Perl etc.

Would CentOS or Fedora be best? Or maybe something else?

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

Thanks for the replies guys, I will be downloading and installing CentOS

Should be good for me to learn Linux as well, I have only really had experience with Ubuntu which is a lot easier than CentOS I would have thought as Ubuntu is aimed at the desktop users rather than a server OS.

Craig.

 

[Craig321]

CentOS is supposed to be stable. This means that it includes a lot of older packages. Fedora is supposed to be cutting-edge so as to test things for future RHEL releases (which will then become CentOS releases). If CentOS doesn't have some features you want/need Fedora would be a more bleeding-edge option.

You might also want to think about Debian on the server. It'll have the package management to which you're accustomed with an extremely stable and long-supported base.

I'd like to learn how to install stuff myself on Linux properly (e.g. Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP, FTP, SSH etc. without too much package management) as I'm sure that'd give me a good in-sight into real Linux rather than Ubuntu-style Linux.

Bleeding edge stuff doesn't really bother me for this server, I just was stability and speed.

I'm sure I'd be able to install aptitude on CentOS if I really needed it?

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone