are you using Fedora in a production environment?

[Alastair Neil]

On 10/26/06, Alastair Neil <ajneil at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/26/06, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > Are you using Fedora in a production or live enviornment?  Are you using
> > large deployments of Fedora, in some sort of "critical" capacity?  Do
> > you
> > know someone who is, and will you forward this email to them?
> >
> > If you are, I want to hear all about it.  I'm trying to gather data for
> > some Fedora myth-busting exercises, and also to inform some of our
> > decision making for Fedora 7.
> >
> > What's your setup like?
> >
> > What is it about Fedora that made you choose to use it, as opposed to
> > something else?
> >
> > What works well for you?
> >
> > What could be better?
> >
> > etc, etc.  Anything you care to share with me.
> >
> > Reply on-list, reply to me directly, whatever works best for you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
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> I work for the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
> at George Mason University, quite a mouthful I know :).
> We have a number of workstations (~200) running dual boot windows and
> linux, two thirds of these  run Scientific Linux and one third FC5.  We run
> FC5 on those machines because of hardware support.  The sata device is not
> well supported in SL.  We also have around 30 servers.  We run a a mix of
> Solaris 9/10 and Linux.  Most of the Linux systems are either CentOS or
> Scientific Linux, however we have a small number of systems running FC 2 and
> FC3 again for hardware support at the time they were installed.  This
> includes our primary NFS server which runs FC3.  We used to run more FC
> systems, however we are migrating to AFS and have selected Scientific Linux
> as our primary platform because of it's OpenAFS integration.
>
> Alastair
>

I hate to follow up my own post , however I forgot to mention on area in
which we will continue to use FC.  Virtualisation.  I will be setting up Xen
FC systems in the near future.
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