At 04:19 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
Stefan Held wrote: > Well i am using it as Development Station at Home, at Work. But this is > what i suspect if i use bleeding edge Tecnology. Most of the users miss > that the Fedora Core Series is a playground for Developers. If you wan't > stable Releases buy RHEL. This is nonsense. Fedora-4 is not "bleeding edge". That is like saying the Ford Ka is the bleeding edge of transportation. Fedora-4 is just a collection of supposedly stable RPMs, most of which were available in FC-3 anyway. A bug is a bug, and should be corrected, not excused. I think Fedora-4 is pretty good, but too many bugs got past those who should have been looking for them. Linus Torvalds has a far more difficult job with the kernel, and very little seems to get past him and his team. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Yes, this thread has been far too alarmist in the posting and far too condescending in the responses. Obviously the poster felt that he was providing a valid warning to others in a similar situation, which is probably nobody because in my experience every installation and application is unique eventually if not initially. But let's leave the instant hostile and ridiculing responses to the MAC and Windows pundits.
I have had some issues with selinux. Mostly due to my lack of understanding of how to deal with it and how to establish the proper policy. Then I recalled the frequent admonition of one of my favorite sysadmins "reading is essential" and long with that I add "planning, thinking, and avoiding panic" while implementing what you read. The answers are out there, the game is to find them.
As for the grey area in FC4 install and usage folks have discussed before. It becomes a lot smaller when you list all services that the server provides and indicate which are critical. If even one service is absolutely critical then you need to either perform a test install to verify the critical service or read extensively to determine if it's reasonably safe to proceed. Even then, you need to have a backup plan. It is only reasonable that if a service is critical you should apply all means necessary to safeguard it.
Dave
