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[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Douglas B. Jones wrote:

> I was curious, are there any official plans to support
> either RedHat Enterprise 3/4 or Fedora 3/4 in the near
> future. I am trying to decide which way to go.

Craig Hancock at Notre Dame has made some RPMs available for Fedora  
Core 3 and 4, and they work just fine on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4  
(or in my case CentOS 4).  Search the sympa-users archive <http:// 
listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-users> for more info.  There are some  
instructions and packages at:

  http://middleware.internet2.edu/mlist/#Sympa_RPMs

All the prerequisites for CentOS 4/RHEL4 are available in Dag's  
repository and Karan's Fedora-Core-Extras-rebuilt-for-CentOS-4  
repository:

  http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
  http://centos.karan.org/

For what it's worth I'd personally recommend staying away from Fedora  
Core for servers due to its rapid pace of development -- as it moves  
more quickly, its end-of-life point comes more quickly and you end up  
relying on gracious community members for providing critical  
updates.  I personally only use Fedora Core on desktop machines, and  
for servers we use CentOS <http://www.centos.org> which is just a Red  
Hat Enterprise Linux rebuild.  This means it maintains full binary  
compatibility with RHEL and is covered by Red Hat's release of  
security and bugfix updates, but comes with no monetary cost for  
licensing.  But that's another topic for another list.  :)

Hope that helps.

Jeff