OT Fedora in production (as nstallation Problem on Fedora Core 8)

[Anthony Cartmell]

> Centos is basically Red Hat Enterprise, the stable, standardised fully  
> tested production qaulity commercial grade and supported OS from Red Hat.

I don't think RedHat support CentOS... ;)

> Fedora is the bleeding edge, experimental, non production version.

Where does it say "experimental" or "bleeding edge"? My copy of Fedora has  
only stable versions of software installed (Apache, PHP, MySQL, sendmail,  
etc).

> So just to recap Fedora is Experimental and not intended for production  
> use, as defined by the people that made it, and that gentleman is as you  
> you might say "straight from the horses mouth".  The people that created  
> it say its less stable and experimental *by design*, that is its purpose  
> in life.

Do you have a reference for that?

I can only find articles where Fedora people recommend Fedora for  
production use, e.g. from Fedora Project Leader, Max Spevack  
(http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220) in August  
last year:

"Anyone (Red Hat or non-Red Hat) who tells you that Fedora isn't suitable  
for a production server is wrong. If someone tells you that Fedora is  
"just a beta for RHEL", they too are wrong.

Either the person is insufficiently informed about what Fedora is (and  
it's our job within Fedora to do that), or the person is purposefully  
misrepresenting Fedora and neglecting to tell the whole story, in which  
case it's our job within Fedora to call them out.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives"

> To use it in a production environment doing critical jobs is rather less  
> than wise.

Not sure I agree with that. I've had no problems with it, even having  
upgraded releases with yum. It does have a shorter release cycle, but not  
as short as MailScanner does ;)

Anyway, I've been very happy using Fedora on my servers for years, and  
will continue to do so. Others may decide to avoid it for things like  
CentOS, but I prefer to keep more up-to-date with the more recent stable  
releases of things!

Cheers!

Anthony
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