Hello All,

I am doing a server upgrade for my company and wanted to know what did you guys think on a server O/S install. The company that is hosting our servers recommended either ES 3.0 or Fedora. They said Fedora would be better but that have not really justified why it would be. Anyone have any suggestions on this?

It will be installed on a Quad Opteron Processors, 4 36GB SCSI RAID5, 848 CPU, 2GB DDR RAM, Adaptec 2120S RAID Controller.

From the specifications that you've put up, I'd definitely go with Red Hat Enterprise and not Fedora. Sure it'll cost you more, but you're paying for something that's enterprise level. I don't even know if Fedora can support 4 processors. I know that ES doesn't so you'll have to go up to AS (Advanced Server). Also, if you're thinking of putting any commercial product such as Oracle, Veritas, etc., on it, you won't get support for it under Fedora but you will under Red Hat Enterprise since a lot of commercial enterprise-class applications officially support Red Hat Enterprise.

I'll second the vote for Red Hat Advanced Server. Fedora seems like a good product, but I wouldn't put my job on the line for it. With RHAS you'll get any support you need, plus as the above poster pointed out, if you need to put a commercial product on it, the vendor is more likely to support RHAS than Fedora. Past that RHAS is an enterprise level OS. While Fedora, for all intensive purposes is just RH9, it says right on their website: "It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products."

Thanks for your support...Enterprise is it then...thanks