Fedora 6 Advice
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jan 25 17:41:52 UTC 2007
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 mroth at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I concur. I would *not* use Fedora on your servers. I was considering
> Fedora before I upgraded about a year ago from RH9, and the general
> opinion, including from my old aquaintance ESR, was that Fedora was not
> leading edge, but bleeding edge, and you want solid reliability, not
> c00ln3ss.
Bleeding edge is not only about "c00ln3ss".
But the main issue with Fedora as an enterprise OS is that it moves too
fast. The idea of upgrading a server farm 1-2 times per year to keep on
the support path is anathema to a sysadmin. Just keeping my half-dozen
RHEL servers operational takes all the time I can spare for them.
Rebuilding them at that pace would be impossible.
>
> I wound up going to SuSE 10, although if I'd known about CentOS then, I
> might have gone there.
RHEL costs for support and access to timely updates. CentOS is the same
software, but it's supported by an independent community and updates come
(slightly) slower.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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