On 8/3/05, Stewart Williams <stewart_cw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Since all FC releases are intended for test by customers (see
> > the website) they are all beta test releases.
> >
> I didn't mean you refer to them as stable, I mean't the Fedora project.
> They usually issue 2 or 3 test releases then a release that they
> consider stable, but people keep saying they are not stable enough and
> are too bleeding-edge. So why do people use it on servers then?
>
> Sorry to go off the subject of this thread, but this keep baffling me as
> a newcomer to Linux.
Not everyone knows about Centos.... And until the Centos4 release the
previous version was very far behind current Fedora. Servers are
pretty easy to keep running anyway. Usually the hardware is very
mainstream so you don't have kernel/driver issues and server software
on linux has been stable and feature-complete for ages. Most of
the 'fedora problems' you see here have to do with recent or unusual
hardware or desktop/GUI programs. The only real problem with fedora
on servers is the need to switch to legacy support when the official
repository stops being updated.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
