Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 19:24:33 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ian Chapman
<packages at amiga-hardware.com> wrote:
> Roger Heflin wrote:
>  >
>  > The problem is that the enterprise OS's ship buggy kernels too, I have
>
>  Of course they do, I'd be surprised to hear if anyone has shipped a 100%
>  bug free kernel, whether it be Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows or whatever.
>  The point though is that RHEL is less of a moving target, if you current
>  setup works then an update to the kernel is less likely to break
>  anything, than say Fedora which frequently ships new versions of the
>  kernel.

One would hope that that these people complaining abut imperfect
kernels in RHEL are find these bugs on their test boxes _before_ they
deploy to production.

>  > And the second you add a driver and/or XFS on to RHEL5 you are
>  > now tainted and *UNSUPPORTED*.

>  Compared to Fedora where you are *UNSUPPORTED* at the offset?

is XFS even in the vanilla kernel?

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