On Mit, 2004-12-01 at 10:18 -0500, Jeff McKeon wrote:
Sean, yes I'm aware of the shorter lifecycle. How is the reliability of upgrading Fedora systems when a new core comes out? Fairly painless or a lot of reconfiguring?
It is almost painless but they usually include one big change with every release that causes problems. Last time this was udev.
We're a startup company with a very tight budget. If I can avoid spending money on an OS it helps a lot.
Saving money for the OS is a good thing but you should consider hiring someone to set up your system. Every professional will have his or her favorite distribution and should be able to tell you (biased of course) how it compares to other distributions. For my part I am comfortable with any distribution (Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Rock, Gentoo, Mandrake) except SuSE. For a server I would recommend Debian but Fedora is also suitable and can be reasonably used on desktop systems too.
Tom
Correct me if I am wrong, but the lifecyle for a Fedora release is 1 year, six months between releases and six months of maintenance after next version is released. The main concern with that short of a lifecyle would be maintenance and security patches to the relevant apps and the kernel. If one is willing to take this responsibility and not rely on the distribution to do it for them, one could use just about any distribution that met their basic needs for a very long time. Opinions?
-- Justin Crabtree Java Programmer Ozarks Technical Community College 447-7533
