The decision to pursue selinux and the 2.6 kernel was driven to meet the needs of the Fedora community which includes people who want to explore emerging technologies.
I have a bad habit of waxing rhetorical. Sorry. So here I go again...
I think Sean has an *excellent* way of putting it. The Fedora Project is not intended to be experimental, perpetually-beta, or bleeding-edge as some have expressed. It is, however, intended to "explore emerging technologies" and tries to stay at the forefront of current development. That is, leading-edge but not bleeding-edge.
Nowhere is the leading edge problem-free. Not in Suse, not in Windows, not in space exploration... nowhere. People who want to run revenue-producing, mission-critical services are almost *never* on the leading edge because they can't afford even a few glitches; they just want it to work! That's where you see people running RHEL, or still running RHL 6.2 through 9 and keeping up with patches themselves. Why? It works, it produces revenue, it's stable, and it's *reliable*. Leading-edge, advanced, cutting-edge, modern... those are all words with no meaning in this context.
I *am* personally running revenue-producing servers on FC1 and FC2, but I also have one server still on RHL-7.3 which I am about to migrate to RHEL-ES. The choice of Red Hat or Fedora systems exclusively is one that I made to maximize the applicability of my previous learning, and also on the grounds that I appreciate and support Red Hat, Inc.'s philosophical objectives to support and promote open-source and Free software. The choice of *version* is dependent on the criticality of the server, the downtime I can afford in case of problems, the need for modern technologies, and even how far the server is from my house. Not kidding.
We all need to OBJECTIVELY evaluate the goals and strategies of each operating system and use the best tool for each task. Do not expect Fedora to be rock-solid... that's not its stated purpose. On the other hand, I think that Fedora's stability is damn good considering its efforts to move forward quickly. To each his own, and your mileage may vary.
Just one thing... if you're going to move to another distro, go ahead. Posting "maybe it's time to move to another distro" is worthless and no one gives a damn. Either stay, enjoy Fedora, be happy, and ideally help out a little as a solid citizen of this community, or go somewhere else. Either choice is fine! But staying and harassing the rest of us by threatening to leave will get you no sympathy and no mercy. No pity parties here.
I'm off to improve my new four-zone firewall on FC2 and work on my "Small Netserver HOWTO" for FC1/FC2. A small crumb of contribution it may be, but damnit I'm going to move forward not backward. The rest of you can do as you please.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
