New FR server: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 8

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> Please accept my apologies for this complicate question.
> 
> I need make a new FR server from sources with mysql support, and I have only
> two OS options: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 8.
> 
> I used only FreeBSD, but now I have only these two options.
> 
> Any suggestions?

either will be alien to you. I run on both - I feel that the CentOS
route is 'easier' in several ways... both have available, ready to
download,  packages with MySQL support...you dont *need* to build
from source...

alan