On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:26, fedora wrote: > In reply to: > ++++ > Message: 28 > Subject: Re: Fedora on the server > From: Brian Collins <listbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:02:12 -0500 > Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > I'd recommend going with RH9 (or RH8) for now. You may want to think > about Enterprise if this is mission-critical, but it's not really > necessary. My only Enterprise boxen are the pair in my Samba fileserver > cluster. Everything else I run Red Hat on (30+ machines) is 7.1 thru > 9. And those are machines that run DHCP, BIND, Postfix, Apache (both > with and without FP extensions), Coldfusion, Qmail, Samba, VS-FTP, PHP, > MySQL, PosgreSQL, and some proprietary stuff. We've even got COBOL > running on RH (for a little longer - we're replacing that app). > > Bottom line - I personally wouldn't put Fedora into production yet. > if you want to put someone else to do most of your job you should chose RedHat :) they have technical support and the rest of the stuff that will make your life easy. But, as we all know when there is a large community developing a free software it will reach a high level very fast (take OpenBSD for example). But, again, there is the security problem with open source :(. RedHat, as they said, want Fedora to be the project where all the problems/software will be solved/tested. So putting apart the technical support fedora core with some minor modifications will allways be one step before Enterprise. And in my opinion will not be much difference between those two. > --B C > ++++ > > dear list subscirbers, > > This is an interesting situation. It is my personal feeling that Fedora will > without a doubt, and before you know it, spring a whole range of server > configurations. Many of these will be devoted to providing a stable, secure > and productive server platform. Why? Because this is what most of us have > done with linux over the last few years. This what we know, this is what we > know well. Now comes the problem, RedHat probably never intended Fedora to > be a competing platform for their commercial product Enterprise. Whilst I > doubt that any community Fedora platform will challenge the level of service > or even technical aspects of enterprise, Fedora will eventually give birth > to competing platforms, this is inevitable and not wholly undesirable. > The question to ask yourself is whether at this juncture in time you wish to > migrate a server to Fedora Core 1 or leave it as a R.H. 9.0 or go for > Enterprise. > It's not about money, it's about the path forward and the open ended nature > of the choice. Fedora is "in the wild", Enterprise is neat-clean-tightly > managed and well, RedHat 8,9.0 are going the way of the dodo bird.. If you > got a multi-million dollar operation, buy Enterprise, simple. Just don't be > surprised if in a few months there's a fedora that works just as well. > Actually, you shouldn't be surprised, this is how the community will > develop. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
