To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Installing fedora at school
One of the things that I would like to point out is that FC is a BETA
or testing product. I would not install it to a production or training
environment. I would use a more stable distribution in such an environment,
such as RHEL.
James McKenzie A Proud User of Linux!
Um, not exactly. It's definitely "bleeding edge" but it certainly not a beta environment. The "Core" releases are typically very solid, and if you just use some common sense running any of the FC distros is perfectly safe.
Set up a dev/testing box somewhere and do daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly (or whatever makes sense for your environment) testing on it. If you know you are going to use your machines for, say, word processing, then test your updates on the test machine and make sure that word processing doesn't break .
I use FC on my desktop and RHEL on my servers. Never had any significant problem with either of them.
As a side note, I believe that Red Hat offers some amazing pricing on RHEL for schools. I *think* it's something like $25 for WS and $50 for AS. Check with RH sales for more details.
Thomas
