Fedora Server?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Hey, Dave! Fancy meeting you here!

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:36:22AM -0400, Tom Curl wrote:
>> You may want to investigate CentOS. ...
>
> What he said.  Fedora is bleedin' edge--which isn't a bad thing, if you're
> experimenting, or want to work in that arena.  But for a server, you
> generally want something stable and supported long-term (since most people
> don't relish rebuilding their server every six months or so).
>
> I believe there's supposed to be a big update (CentOS 6), but it's not
> ready for prime-time yet.  I wouldn't wait for it--these things can drag
> on.

Yup. RH did some obfuscating to their build environment - mainly to delay
Oracle's use of it to build "unbreakable Linux", but it hit CentOS hard. I
understand that 6.0 is in q/a now, and *may* be released soon.

        mark