[Moodle] Moodle 1.6 - anyone leapt in ?

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Con,

 You make a valid point ....particularly about the lifespan. 

My research suggests that at the end of the day the kernel and utilities are still the same .  
Also, I am led to belive that usually with any "enterprise" distro of Linux you don't get the latest cutting edge versions
- they tend to use the more mature versions (slightly older but stable versions).

However, you have opened my eyes to these options and I am willing to dig deeper to find out more about the service lives of these distros.

With thanks


Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034

>>> conz at cyber.com.au 07/20/06 07:28pm >>>
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 06:29:10PM +1000, Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We too upgraded to Moodle 1.6 today ( from ver 1.4x ),  migrated the 
> data and upgraded to a newer server all with no hitch.
> We did have the talented Jeff Clement to steer the show as well. 
> We stuck to Linux ( Fedora Core 5 ) rather than move to IIS. 

I'm curious. 

Why FC5? 

It's fine for a desktop, but has some shortcomings as a server platform.

The key one being shorter support lifespan. 

Why not one of the free Red Hat Enterprise Linux distros, which are
source and binary compatible with RHEL 4+ and have 5+ years of
guaranteed support coverage? 

For instance:
 
 http://www.centos.org/ 


All free ISO downloads and totally open source, like FC5.

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
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