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

[Peter Farrow]

Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>> 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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 >>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.

I quite prepared to concede that I may have been unusually unlucky in my 
Fedora experience...but once bitten twice shy...


P.


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