Watch it: Multiple DNS implementationsvulnerableto cachepoisoning

[Scott Silva]

on 7-11-2008 10:40 PM Anthony Cartmell spake the following:
>> Another good example of why Fedora is not the best choice for a server 
>> if it
>> is going to be expected to operate more than 18 months
> 
> ...unless you're happy to upgrade on a roughly annual basis to benefit 
> from more up-to-date stable versions of the main packages, such as perl, 
> apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.
> (see problems installing recent MainScanner versions on machines with 
> old perl installations earlier)
> 
> We've been here before - Fedora is an excellent server OS for people 
> like me, running web servers requiring up-to-date packages. It may not 
> be if your situation means upgrading OS versions is expensive and you 
> have no need for recent software packages installed automatically.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Anthony
That is why I qualified the end of my statement with " if it is going to be 
expected to operate for more than 18 months". A server farm of virtual and 
real servers installs can be automated rather easily, and having the latest 
and greatest for systems that sometimes get a 6 month or year contract and 
then fall off when they get abandoned wouldn't be as big a deal.
But I sure wouldn't want to be the guy that had to re-install a few hundred 
servers every year or so.

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