by Void Main » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:49 pm
There is nothing stopping you from running any version of Red Hat or Fedora on a server. It will be *at least* as good as any other distro out there. Having said that, where I work we do run Red Hat Advanced Server version 2.1 and 3.0 on some servers. 3.0 is basically identical to Red Hat 9. The only real difference I have seen is the SMP kernel might be tweaked a little more. We use it for machines running 2-4 processors with 2-4GB of RAM. We also only run it on machines we run Oracle on (Oracle requires ES or AS I believe in order to have it supported). We run RH8, RH9, and Fedora on non-Oracle servers.
We paid over $2k per copy for AS but all of that is really for support. Red Hat will tell you that RH8/RH9/FC1 is not server class so you will pay them for their ES and AS versions. I actually prefer to run Fedora over RHAS just because the software is more up to date. I actually think it should be OK to give copies of RHAS to anyone who wants it but since it is not available on download sites there may be some reason that it can't be, hence maybe the reason for the link you give where they may have pulled out any offending pieces. At any rate, it depends on what type of server you are running. I prefer Fedora for 99% of my Linux needs.
