2008/3/25 max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Albert Graham wrote: > > > > > >>> 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. > > > > > > OK, but you might have mentioned that in your first post which could > > 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. > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > How do you virtualize "everything"? You have to have a real kernel and > > device drivers somewhere. If that isn't an up-to-date fedora then you > > are talking about something very different than it seems here. > > > > > > -- > > > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > am I the only person that voluntarily uses Fedora? No you're not alone. A lot of us use it with no (major) issue what so ever and so have no need to troll the mailing lists and complain. My most recently "Fedora problem" was hardware related and due to excessive dust build up in the machine, aka my fault. Other problems I have had with Fedora are solely related to HAL and UDEV, every now and then it fails to noticed a tv card of mine on a cold boot. And now and then udev changes the assigned device name to one of my two tv cards. Thats it. I will note however that I am still on F7 due to lazyness and lack of time. But I am not yet noticing any bit rot. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
