http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/small-business-question/ Thu, 23 May 2013 05:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/small-business-question/#comment-54577 kzdpsg Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:51:42 +0000 #comment-54577 A Linux server installation would probably be a better choice for most applications. You may be able to use a desktop-class PC rather than a server-class PC for testing purposes. You will need to be careful if you go this route as newer desktop PCs might have hardware that is not supported by your chosen Linux distribution. You might want to check out CentOS (www.centos.org) which is a free distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise for testing purposes. It would be more stable than Fedora although support for newer hardware will be better in Fedora.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/small-business-question/#comment-54549 schmidtw Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:29:47 +0000 #comment-54549 You may want to start using a thin client running Linux to test larger scale implementation. As Dougd1 suggested, I to would start with a Fedora Core. At my company, run linux on several of our servers (depending on use). Remember, you can always have a linux operating systems on workstations and use RDP calls into Linux or Windows servers.

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