Fedora as production server OS

[WipeOut]

Rickard Svoren wrote:

> Thanks for this email Peter
>
> We are not in need for any external support services today, we have 
> been using
> RHL since version 6.2 ( i found an old RHL 4.2 Box yesterday so there 
> might
> be even longer :-).
>
> My main concern is security updates and stability, and of course 
> upgrading 1-2
> times a year is possible but not desirable. I have been looking at 
> Suse, Debian
> and Slackware aswell but it seems like waste to change distro when we 
> have RHL
> competence in our company. But we do not like to get jailed into 
> Redhat's commersial
> train....
>
> I guess i'm looking for some advices from people in the same situation.
>
>
> /Rickard
>
I am pretty much in the same situation right now.. We are close to 
rolling out a few new services (and servers) and the choice of distro is 
a difficult one.. We to have only used RH since ver 6.x so to have to 
learn a new distro is not desireable, but neither is having an insecure 
system open to the internet.. :)

I think there are probably many who have the same concern and are 
looking around.. Many alternate distro's could very easily go the same 
route as RH (SuSE for example) and then the problem will start all over 
again so the choice is not an easy one..

So far it looks to me like Fedora is still the best offering there is, 
the only wildcard is how well the community will get behind it and make 
it work with quick updates to security problems and easy upgrades from 
one version to the next..

It looks to me like there are still a number of people who would be very 
valuable to the Fedora project who are opting to sit on the edges.. I am 
referring to all the people who are building their own yum/apt 
repositories instead of all working on the same communal offering to 
make the distro better..

I guess we are just going to have to make a leap of faith and deal with 
the issues as they arise..

Later..