FC 3 -- Ready for Production Deploymnet??

[Matt Morgan]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:52:39 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:37 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> 
> > So what does this mean? Basically: if you can get a Fedora Core system
> > to do what you want it to do, it will probably continue to do that
> > indefinitely, until something changes. In some circumstances your
> > system will run forever (my compatriot here at work has a Fedora Core
> > 1 machine that's been up for 400+ days, and that's a desktop he pounds
> > on daily). But for a web server, you're going to want to stay on top
> > of updates and that will take a little bit of governance and
> > occasional problem-solving. You can't just "set it and forget it."
> >
> > It may sound like I'm recommending against Fedora in your case, but
> > I'm not. I think Fedora is great. We don't run it on our servers, but
> > that's because we're understaffed so we favor stability over features,
> > and that's Debian's strength. We can turn on security updates, turn
> > off all other updates, and rarely worry about those servers again. But
> > this is a pretty high-level strategic decision and it wouldn't really
> > take a lot more effort to use FC3 instead.
> ----
> not to argue with your choice of Debian but I would think that Red Hat
> pretty much has the same sort of model that Debian has if you
> consider...
> 
> RHEL 3                     -> Debian stable
> Fedora 3                   -> Debian testing
> Rawhide/Fedora-core-4-test -> Debian unstable
> 
> obviously Red Hat has released RHEL 4
> 
> the paradigm of Debian stable type category has probably now been
> migrated to the 2.6 kernel AND the long term stability (and I'm
> gathering that Debian is likewise about to move 2.6 base into stable
> too).

No, you're leaving out the whole security.debian.org repositories. If
you set your apt-get config only to use the security repositories,
then you get only security-related updates. I'm pretty sure that RH
has no analogous capability.