On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I know this has been discussed, but it was more toward, is FC stable > enought for use as a production server etc. Entirely up to you, as an admin to define what is "stable" enough. By that argument, Ubuntu itself isn't stable enough for server use > I'm looking more towards the limited life_span of FC compared to it's > RHEL counterpart. (which is where tao linux/CentOs etc... comes into the > picture) Use Centos then > I'm getting a bit flustered with the term "legacy" where a normal FC > life-span is only like 18 months before the "legacy" becomes obsolete (I > think, correct me) FC-n gets updates for about 8 months if not more (if we stick to a 6 month release cycle). Legacy takes it thru two other release cycles, of about 12 months. So, yes, probably 18-20 months seems viable. > Now, RHEL is supposed to last for 5 years. (which is a bit too plenty > many) Hence, the question of using Tao Linux/Cent Os instead of Fedora. Use Centos then > Now, I can always roll my own rpms based on source packages as it _is_ > faster than the mirrors can come out with updated ones. But that's > another story. (If I had a better/beefier box, I'll just run Gentoo on > it, but since this is a P133 w/ 128MB Ram, Its more like.. Tough Luck.) You're really asking on the wrong list... -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
