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

[Peter Farrow]

BTW:

 >>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!

Stability is demonstrated over time,  it doesn't come guaranteed by 
simply using the latest versions..... have you checked Vista out 
recently ;-)

P.


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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