OT Fedora in production (as nstallation Problem on Fedora Core8)

[Peter Farrow]

 >>I'm glad that MailScanner has a policy of regular releases with new 
features, I'd hate to be stuck with the last "stable" version that was 
perhaps five years old!

You really are missing the point.

Its the quality of the release not the quantity.

And Fedora releases are not the same stable quality as RHEL or CentOS,  
if you read  the mail list you will note the original poster fixed the 
problem by using CentOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.

You mistake the freqency of release with the stability of the product.  
Fedora could release every day but it still wouldn't be the production 
stable platform.

Think about it like this, if your very life depended on the stability of 
an OS, where one hiccup or reboot or software failure would cause you to 
die a slow and painful death, would you rather the machine deciding your 
fate ran Centos/RHEL or Fedora Core 8.

If your answer is the latter (which I think you would choose just for 
effect), then perhaps you should just shoot yourself now  ;-)

regards

Pete





Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>> So, no-one can tell me that Fedora is as stable as RHEL.
>
> No, it's not as stable, because RHEL lags behind Fedora by a year or 
> so, but that doesn't mean that Fedora is unstable.
>
>> I agree with Peter: more recent is not always more stable. Of course,
>> sometimes you need "more recent" because of features, critical bugfixes,
>> etc, not (yet) available via RPM.
>
> Yes, more recent releases are less stable, by definition. Choosing 
> what to use is a constant trade-off between stability and requiring 
> new features and performance improvements.
>
> I'm glad that MailScanner has a policy of regular releases with new 
> features, I'd hate to be stuck with the last "stable" version that was 
> perhaps five years old!
>
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