IS FC3 stable?

Pete pete at surfusa.net
Mon Jan 10 21:51:23 UTC 2005


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 10.01.2005 schrieb Pete um 22:12:
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>>I've noticed a couple things about FC3 that aren't Stable or quite 
>>working. 
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>Single not properly working as expected applications are normal. That's
>the reason why bugzilla.redhat.com exists. This does not indicate that
>the whole release is not stable.
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>>    1. several of the server settings frontends aren't working very 
>>well, ie. the httpd and named front-ends.
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>Never used any of them. The non-functioning is bugzilla reported?
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>>    2. if you're looking to use the system as a mailer _Server_, you'll 
>>have some fun configuring sendmail and cyrus.  In fact a front-end to 
>>cyrus / sendmail / saslauth would be wonderful.
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>Nothing is broken there. You just have to minimal configure Sendmail -
>Cyrus-IMAPd interaction. Trivial even if you want to run a mail server,
>as you should know about the details. All far from being unstable.
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>>   3. multiple LUN or master/slave on sbp2 drives is still broken.
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>And that makes the full Core release non stable? Whoever is about to use
>Fedora should read
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>http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
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>and then to know that will use a system at top of Linux development. If
>you prefer something like "Debian stable" (including the age of software
>as consequence of some definition of stability) then Fedora Core is
>certainly the wrong system. On the other hand, if you have most modern
>hardware, you won't come far by using such very conservative Linux.
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>>Pete
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>Alexander
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Alex, I hardly said the whole release was un-stable, I just pointed out 
a few things that aren't working properly.  And as far as 
cyrus/sendmail, if we ever want Linux to seriously challenge Windows, 
we're going to have to do better than placing packages in a release that 
need quite a bit of twiddling to get to function even marginally.  I 
point to bsodmikes posting on Cyrus and sendmail. Now, as far as the LUN 
support, that's purely a kernel issue, but important none-the-less for 
someone inquiring as to the release being stable.  Now if you mean the 
literal meaning of stable, as in does it crash or panic, I don't think 
I've seen a kernel panic in years.  But for someone going through the 
motions of installing an operating system and all the effort than 
entails, I thought I'd pass on my experiences with FC3 to-date.  So, 
repectfully, lighten-up Alex, we all love Linux or we wouldn't be here.




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