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RH Sooks, its rpm based, so unless you feel like manually compiling programs all the time because you want to use the latest & greatest, RH is always numerous versions back from current releases as RH patches all to often, a far better choice would be Gentoo / BSD / Ubuntu.

As far as Light v's Apache, lighty has far less htaccess ability than apache, so if your dependent on htaccess rules, lighty is not the way to go, speed wise lighty can be faster, but not always the case when it comes to LARGE forum, lighty wasnt designed for dynamic based sites, but it can run a forum better than apache in many cases, if your site is high on images & htaccess, lighty isnt going to make a world of difference unless you run multiple lighty occurrences, separate image servers etc.