On Thursday 17 August 2006 11:48, Roger wrote: > > I did not even have the Graphical aspect of Fedora installed i installed > just the bare minimum and for some reason a lot of things were installed > that i did not specify instance the Bluetooth, it was causing my server > to crash and i removed that, i removed exim basically all i did was > remove... remove... until the thing was making my hard drives die. > > The guys at Red Hat have a lot of work to do because FC5 is a load of > trash, i tried to upgrade my kernel and it did not work, so i guess some > of the nifty that FC5 comes with are a direct trade off for stabilty, > the only reason i opted for FC5 was because FC3 did not have SATA > drivers for my server so i hastily put together a small machine with > 768MB memory and 40G hard drive and i am running Qmail with MySQL > integration there and so far the machine has not complained(I am > touching wood by the way!!!). > > It has to be back to the work bench for FC5, i hear they have already > released FC6! I hate to break this to you, as I'm running 6 FC5 Xen DomU domains on a production server for some of our customers who wanted to host a full webiste without the need for Co-location. It's a new service we have been offering for about 2 months now and it's been absolutely rock solid. Not to mention that I have 2 FC5 servers that pull in weather data from 144 NWS radars all day every day at about 10Mbps for over 6 months without a reboot. We have 5 more FC5 servers that control more than 20TB of weather data that is used in multi-GB chunks for one of our customers who use a 20CPU SGI server to process radar images for TV stations all over the country. Not to mention all our DNS/web/monitoring servers running FC5. I've even migrated a couple of our servers from RHEL to FC5 as RHEl didn't support the RAID cards in the boxes well enough. I also personally have 10 FC5 servers/workstations at home that provide MP3 jukebox/video editing capabilities, workstations for my kids and my squid proxy to filter out unwanted crap to my kids systems'. I've never had a problem with FC5, either in a straight install or an upgrade. Yum updates flawlessly and other than Gentoo running on my laptop, I wouldn't use another OS. If you are having problems, you need to post them on the list or file a bug report. Hearing 'it did not work' (and I hear that A LOT) without any other documentation is useless. Personally it sounds like the drives you had were dying and that's what caused FC5 to act up. But based on such limited information, I could be wrong. As for FC6, it's at Test2 and even with it as a test release, I'm happy with it. -- Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415
