Which Linux for Upgrade?

[Blammo]

Merrick Lex Berman wrote:

>Hi,
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>I have been running Mapserver 3.6 with JBox (formerly Mapplet) on Linux
>RH 7.1 (i686) for more than three years.   It just works.  Very stable!
>Now I need to replace the entire server.   On the listserve I noticed a
>number of complaints about installing Mapserver on RH9 and Fedora Core
>2.  Does anyone have any recommendations?    Should I just run RH 7.2 on
>the new hardware, or go up to RH 9?
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I have it running on both of these.  We had more problems with getting
RH to run stably.  This was related more to the oldish hardware than
anything else.  Once this was ironed out everything has been running
very (Very) stable.

bobb

>Also, I would like to make use of Mapserver & PostGIS this time around.
>Any advice about the best distro / configuration?
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>Thanks!
>
>Lex Berman
>www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
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