Red Hat Enterprise 3 or Fedora

[CoolMike]

Hi

We are starting with Colo and are a bit unsure, which operating system we should choose.

We will buy some DELL Servers and they recomended us the Red Hat Enterprise 3 incl. 1 year subscription.

They told us, that we don't need to renew this subscription after a year and can take the updates from other sites. Is this really true?

The other solution would be Fedora, but I was reading in some other postings, that this system is actually not for productive servers.

Which of this 2 OS do you recomend for WHM/cpanel?

Thanks
Mike

[casey]

Try CentOS.

www.centos.org

It's RHE for free.

[kris1351]

If you are using them for production then RHE would probably be the way to go. With Fedora there are lots of updates since it is a very aggressively developed OS. You could always go with FreeBSD.

[CoolMike]

Thanks for the answers.

For what is actually the fee when I buy RHE? Is this just a one time fee and if I need support, I can renew it? Or I need to renew it, as long as I want to use RHE?

Thanks
Mike

[icanectc]

Prefer Fedora over RHE