Alan Cox wrote:
G'day Alan
I don't see the point of an off-list cc, I'm on the list and the round
trip from here to RH and back is a few seconds.
The _only_ reason I will admit for its use as a server is for software
development, where one is developing client or server against it,
targetting a future release of RHEL. Then, I would use it as needed for
that development, but not for other purposes.
Then I might run Fedora and Rawhide, both, for development, and test
against both.
Just read this list and see how often Fedora blows up.
I think we should at this point try 'statistics for beginners'. You have
a list consisting of people who are heavily involved and people who join
because they have problems combined with a tendancy for those having
problems to be the ones who post (why email 'my server is working today'
to the list).
All that's true, but it happens fairly often that something, such as a
kernel update, renders Fedora unusable, and it does not help that the
default behaviour when installing a new kernel is to make the new kernel
active for the next boot.
I maintain servers remotely, and while I might reboot one in the
expectation that should there be a problem I have a cross-town journey,
I really don't want the new kernel to be booted until my say-so.
Products such as RHEL are designed with a goal of avoiding regressions,
so what works continues to work and for many uses that is far more
preferable. To understand Fedora reliability you need to work out what to
measure. The end result of that is that while RHEL might be far less
likely to regress something that works well than Fedora, it is also far
less likely to cure something than Fedora.
Just a few minutes ago I was reading about a problem fixed in CentOS
that Red Hat (apparently) wasn't interested in fixing.
I know a lot of people who run Fedora reliably on servers, including some
I'd have expected to be running enterprise products.
Presumably they know enough to not be surprised when it breaks.
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Cheers
John
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