[Fedora] Was (WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4) FC in production

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

M. Lewis wrote:

> Res wrote:
>
>> ...but for servers or stability, you wont beat RH9 and slackware...
>
> I have several clients running FC3 as servers with ZERO issues on a 
> daily basis.

    Joining Mike, I will also say that I have several FC3 and FC4 
servers running without any problems.  Keeping in mind that these don't 
have X installed, which cuts away most of the "problems" I hear people 
are having, mainly with desktop applications.  They also have next to 
zero interaction with Wintel machines except for providing DNS and other 
routing (firewall) services.  Our two main SMTP machines are still 
running RH9, but they're about to be replaced by the two backup ones 
which are already running FC4.  They've been given the full load a few 
times as a test (we've shut off the main servers) and they performed 
just fine.

    To each their own I say.  I don't know what your problems were 
running FC4 as a server (nor do I really care to know) but perhaps you 
shouldn't knock a product just because you had troubles with it.  
Others, like Mike and myself, don't seem to have any trouble.  Keep in 
mind that we may not be running the same exact services and for that 
matter, I'm willing to bet we're not running the same exact hardware.  
So, everyone's mileage will vary.

    (Yes, I too have tried Slackware, and quite honestly, I prefer RH/FC.)

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