FC1 on the enterprise?

[Andre Costa]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:36:46 +1000 (EST)
Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Andre Costa wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I will probably be assigned the task of installing and configuring
> > Linux on a mail server that handles a couple of thousands email
> > accounts(close to 100,000). I had used RH Linux on production
> > servers in the past, and have been using FC1 on my desktop ever
> > since it came out.
> >
> > I can't see no reason why I would not use it for this assignment
> > either, but if folks on this list could share some experiences (not
> > necessarily related to mail server installations, but any FC1
> > enterprise use), I would be most grateful.
> 
> I wouldnt use it in a samba file server for win$hit boxes, especially
> if you have a lot of them, we ran dual test, and the 7.3 boxes kicked
> fedora all over the place for speed, moved them to rh9 still going
> fine, fedora was laggy slow horrid, when RH cease support for 9, and
> we get sick of deps issues when we manually compile updates on kernels
> etc, we are moving to slackware, RH lost us the moment they went teh
> fedora way, so many things just dont stand up to the known RedHat
> standard, the fedora mail server MX has been rebooted twice as well in
> a week, the (RH9 boxes keep on keeping on without glitch)
> 
> Oh and fedoras kbdrate setting is BS, but i could rant for anotehr 2
> hours on what I find wrong compared to how the RH we knew was...it
> just doesnt match up anymore....
> 
> Im almost dismayed enough to use slackware desktops, my personal
> desktop went to fedora as well from 7.3,  the WORST thing i could have
> ever done. the upgrade f#$ked up, unlike RH upgrades, countless
> machines from 7.3 to 9 without a glitch, to fedora destroyed
> everything (yes backups are worth it <G>)

Hi Res,

thaks for sharing your experience with FC1 -- I must say I hadn't heard
such a negative impression about it yet. The samba issue is specially
worrisome for me because this server (which is not intended for such
heavy use -- please read my last posts on this thread) will indeed have
to serve files to windoze servers.

Anyway, it was not really FC on my radar, but instead some free
RHEL-based distro. Even that is starting to change after reading some
replies to my original msg.

Best,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa