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

[Peter Farrow]

You miss read the grammar in my reply.

We all know that Centos is not  supported by Red Hat, however it is 
binary compatible, if you're not sure what binary compatible just go for 
google.

Heres an article worth reading that looks at both sides of the argument:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1766350,00.asp

You also might want to read real world comment here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-255265.html

I think that by insisting its not a testing ground OS you are not in 
agreement with everyone I deal with...

Its a testing ground for RHEL, all the proven stable parts of Fedora get 
incorporated in RH, all the duff bits are left for Fedora to turn the 
handle again.  So if you want a distro, that is right out at the front 
of development with potential pitfalls and duff bits then use Fedora. If 
you want low maintenance servers running 24x7x365 with little 
interference from Admins, just running doing a high availability job 
then use a production OS such as RHEL or Centos.

If you use Fedora for production, then I'm glad I'm not relying on your 
production servers.

To say that it is suitable for production comes down to experience, it 
really isn't suitable for production and certainly not Core 8,  I could 
only imagine that it might be useful on small scale servers doing 
traditional tasks where there is a high ratio of admins to users and 
perhaps machines physically close at hand so you can reboot them when 
required .
Regard

Pete

Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>> 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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