On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:00:09AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 has been released, should I go with that on the new db server, or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64?
The differences seem compelling in favor of Fedora Core:
- Fedora Core is free-beer, price of $0, whereas SUSE is $767.
- Fedora Core is GNU-free, whereas I'm not so sure about SUSE.
The possisble downside of Fedora Core for AMD64 is that it's more or less "hot off the presses" as of March 5. (Over a month ago, so I guess if it was a disaster we would have heard by now?)
Well, I don't know if we want to be spending our limited money on OS licenses ("support"). Perhaps we should just wait for Fedora Core to have a couple more releases to iron out the bugs? No need to rush it.