On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
am I the only person that voluntarily uses Fedora? I have only been using it a short time but i understood it was a moving target when i signed on. This thread reminds me of KL. It wasn't that long ago so i am sure most of you remember to whom i am referring.
Fedora is what it is and some have more experience than others. Is there some other lesson to take away from this thread?
Max
Albert Graham wrote:OK, but you might have mentioned that in your first post which could
>
>>> I have installed hundreds of servers using Fedora and I have to say
>>> I've had very few problems, kernel issues are not really the fault of
>>> the Fedora team, sometimes you hit quirks but these do get sorted out.
>>
>> How many years have you maintained these servers and how much damage
>> does downtime cause?
>>
> None, as they are almost all clustered/load balanced/redundant.
have been taken to mean hundreds of different offices were each relying
on the one server you set up there. Fedora is OK if downtime doesn't
matter.
How do you virtualize "everything"? You have to have a real kernel and
> Originally I was using RH 2.1 then 3, however, I found myself constantly
> upgrading components because RH did not want to break "version"
> compatibility for 5 years, which in my eyes is worse than binary
> compatibly - Moores law and all that! so Fedora suits me down to the
> ground.
>
> The only real issue is a stable kernel for your requirements, everything
> else is less important, also I have a habit of running everything in
> user-space so it's a lot easier to virtualize or switch out the
> underlying OS if required.
device drivers somewhere. If that isn't an up-to-date fedora then you
are talking about something very different than it seems here.
am I the only person that voluntarily uses Fedora? I have only been using it a short time but i understood it was a moving target when i signed on. This thread reminds me of KL. It wasn't that long ago so i am sure most of you remember to whom i am referring.
Fedora is what it is and some have more experience than others. Is there some other lesson to take away from this thread?
Max
