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

[Anthony Cartmell]

> 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.

You missed my winking smiley ;)

> Heres an article worth reading that looks at both sides of the argument:
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1766350,00.asp

Although that's a little old now, I agree with its sentiments. It even  
lists Wikipedia and Sourceforge as using Fedora for production servers :)

> You also might want to read real world comment here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-255265.html

I agree with those opinions that compare Ubuntu with Fedora rather than  
with RHEL. The points about stability being unrelated to the age of  
software are exactly what I'm talking about.

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

Depends whether "testing ground OS" is a good thing or not. I'd have  
thought that the fact that RHEL is based on Fedora, and not, say, Ubuntu,  
was an indication that Fedora is indeed one of the most stable free Linux  
distros available.

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

My only few downtimes over the last three years have been hardware and  
network related. I have never had any issues with Fedora, which has proved  
to be quite stable enough for production use.

> To say that it is suitable for production comes down to experience

I quite agree, I'm simply relating what I've personally experienced. If  
someone has run production web/e-mail servers with Fedora and has had  
problems with the OS I'd love to hear, in case I've been unusually lucky.

Cheers!

Anthony
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