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

[Peter Farrow]

Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>>> Do you have a reference for that?
>>
>> - From the End-Of-Lif statement from Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9:
>
> I don't see where it says "don't use Fedora for production use" or 
> "unstable" or "bleeding edge". Of course RHEL is a little more stable, 
> and probably Solaris is even more stable still. But that doesn't mean 
> Fedora is unstable.
>
> We're probably misunderstanding what we each mean by "stable". I mean 
> it as using stable versions of software, such as Apache, MySQL, 
> sendmail, the linux Kernel, etc. So no beta releases, few bugs. I 
> think you take it as meaning long-term (5 years) maintenance, so you 
> don't have to upgrade so often.
>
> MailScanner has stable releases roughly every month, and is therefore 
> much more "cutting edge" than even Fedora, but unless you install the 
> beta releases I wouldn't call MailScanner "unstable" or "not for 
> production use". :)
>
>> And given the lifespan of 12 to 18 months were it goes from released to
>> no longer provided with updates I concur that Fedora should never been
>> used for business.
>
> I agree, if you aren't willing to upgrade your server OS roughly once 
> per year then Fedora's not such a good idea. If you are, like I am, 
> then it's a very nice and stable OS for business use.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Anthony
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I think we've moved on now, and every else agrees "not for production"

Regards

Pete


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