Il giorno gio, 30/10/2008 alle 07.55 -0500, Dave Ihnat ha scritto: > It's not so much a matter of "better" in an absolute sense, as what's > necessary to manage a system and/or network in a production environment. > > Fedora is bleeding-edge, and volatile. It's expected to be; this is > where the new stuff is first tried out for later release in the mainstream > Redhat Enterprise. As such, there ARE going to be times it's unstable, or > flat-out broken. It'll get fixed, but it's embarassing to have your web > server or production application server go down until you can get a patch. > > It also has an unacceptably short life-cycle. Production systems > typically have a known and restricted set of business-related functions > to support; once these work reliably, there's no real need to move to > a new operating system until the current one is no longer supported, > the hardware becomes too difficult to support (e.g., no more components > from XYZ Computer Corp. are available), or needed peripherals aren't > supported with drivers. Fedora has about a one-year lifecycle; this > means a fiendish amount of work building and verifying a new release > in a production environment, and it must be repeated on a too-frequent > basis for most businesses. > > For these, and other, reasons businesses tend to gravitate to RHE, Centos, > Ubuntu, or other distributions that tend to be more stable out-of-the-box > and have a long enough support cycle to prevent the churn of continually > recertifying and upgrading production systems. > > Fedora IS great for those who want to learn about--and, arguably, > affect--current trends in Linux and Linux tools evolution and development. > I would unhesitatingly recommend it to the professional or hobbyist > who's trying to learn Linux/Unix in depth, or who needs capabilities > that are currently in rapid evolution at the development edge (with, of > course, caveats if this need is production-related.) I agree with you, however, would also like to point out that personally I think Ubuntu is a compromise between RHE and Fedora. For a stable and safe business environment I would rather use Debian instead of Ubuntu. Regards vince -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
