Re: Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

Roger Heflin wrote:

Yes, and typically to support anything recent you have too many add-ons on the enterprise OSes, if you are in a fast moving enterprise environment RHEL won't work.

Fast moving and enterprise are words you don't usually see together. Don't you have to keep decades-old processes running?

RHEL is probably quite good for any of the nice simple static enterprise environments, but most would argue there you should probably lock everything down so tight that few kernel updates/userspace are even required for anything, the problem is in an environment were you are constantly having to bring in new hardware that does not work on the older release, where you cannot wait 6 months for RHEL to catch up.

I can't recall ever being in a position of "having to bring in new hardware". What scenario forces this issue on you? I haven't noticed a shortage of vendors who will sell RHEL supported boxes. But it sounds like you have an interesting job...

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