FC3 stable enough for production web server?

[Justin Crabtree]

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> On Mit, 2004-12-01 at 10:18 -0500, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> 
>>Sean, yes I'm aware of the shorter lifecycle.  How is the reliability of
>>upgrading Fedora systems when a new core comes out?  Fairly painless or
>>a lot of reconfiguring?
> 
> 
> It is almost painless but they usually include one big change with every
> release that causes problems. Last time this was udev.
> 
> 
>>We're a startup company with a very tight budget.  If I can avoid
>>spending money on an OS it helps a lot.
> 
> 
> Saving money for the OS is a good thing but you should consider hiring
> someone to set up your system. Every professional will have his or her
> favorite distribution and should be able to tell you (biased of course)
> how it compares to other distributions. For my part I am comfortable
> with any distribution (Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Rock, Gentoo,
> Mandrake) except SuSE. For a server I would recommend Debian but Fedora
> is also suitable and can be reasonably used on desktop systems too.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

Correct me if I am wrong, but the lifecyle for a Fedora release is 1 
year, six months between releases and six months of maintenance after 
next version is released.  The main concern with that short of a 
lifecyle would be maintenance and security patches to the relevant apps 
and the kernel.  If one is willing to take this responsibility and not 
rely on the distribution to do it for them, one could use just about any 
distribution that met their basic needs for a very long time.  Opinions?

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Justin Crabtree
Java Programmer
Ozarks Technical Community College
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