Jim Perrin wrote: > On 7/24/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I want to compare CentOS to Fedora and other distros on a >> stability/network-dependance basis. Where should I look for some >> published >> statistics on updates? I mean probably megabytes per week (or whichever >> units, of published updates over time), per distro. >> Thank you in advance > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdf > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/whichlinux/ (CentOS is built from > the freely available RHEL source rpms, so arguements for RHEL on this > page also apply to CentOS, except for support and pricetag.) I have a number of CentOS machines that have been up 24/7 in datacenter environments for years and were only rebooted on occasion as a result of security-related kernel upgrades (which would affect any linux distro). I can't recall EVER having uptime or network-related issues on ANY live CentOS server that wasn't the direct result of a hardware failure. It just works...and works...and works. :) The key is to beat up on any new hardware in a test environment first to make sure that you don't have any incompatible hardware bits (which hasn't bitten me often). Cheers,