From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:58 am
Quoting Robert Canary <rwcanary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I have a couple new servers I was needing to put online.
I have always built, compiled, and setup my own Linux boxes, the
most> recent ones I did so using RedHat 7.2. and recompiled most of
the> software to make it fit what I wanted.
However, the options availbale today will suit we just me just fine
without allot of recomipling.
So why would take Fedora over ES, or vice versa?
Fedora:
- free
- bleeding edge (less stable, more features, updates can push new
versions) - short life cycle
<snip>
RHEL:
- price tag (annual subscription)
This is the reason I migtated to SuSE on my home systems - Fedora, from
what I've read, seems to be bleeding edge, and I have no enthusiasm to
come home from being a sysadmin to debug the o/s. If I'd known of it, I
might have gone to CentOS. I want stability, and I won't spend serious
money (I mean, if I wanted to do that, I could buy WinDoze.... <g>) on
the o/s.
Btw, the bleeding edgeiness of Fedora is ESR's feeling, too, or at least
it was when we were talking about just this, about a year ago.
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ... Secondly, the version upgrade is messy, I've never ever yet upgraded from one version of RH or Fedora without conflicts, FC4 was a comple explosion, I gave up and reinstalled previous and ignored FC4. ... Yet I can do this with even slackware and have been able to for years, ... is by design "bleeding edge" or is that "bleeding edge of blunders", and if we dont fix it soon, the likes of debian and suse will overtake us by a long mile. ... (Fedora)
Re: Where are all the updates gone? ... I was repeatedly shot down with the 'bleeding edge technology' line when I complained about lilo's complete removal. ... If you take into consideration Fedora Extras the percentage would probably go down even further. ... Oh yeah that reminds me 'Fedora is bleeding edge technology you shouldnt be running on servers if you wanted a stable environment', that I forgot was another common line that used to be throw around. ... I don't give a toss if I'm lablled a troll, which I will be because I am 'rocking the boat', nor do I care that the truth hurts most people and when they pop out of the woodwork to label people trolls, they stand out as one themselves:) ... (Fedora)
Re: Where are all the updates gone? ... I was repeatedly shot down with the 'bleeding edge technology' line when I complained about lilo's complete removal. ... Doesnt take away your claim that Fedora only provides backports. ... At any rate, Apache, sendmail and bind upstream development itself moves slowly since these are more mature components that doesnt require changes more often. ... If there is a compelling need for any package update to be provided, you can request the maintainer using bugzilla. ... (Fedora)
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ... version of RH or Fedora without conflicts, FC4 was a comple explosion, I gave up and reinstalled previous and ignored FC4. ... I've upgraded my server from RH5 all the way up to FC6 using either apt-rpm or yum and not had any major issues. ... with slapt-get I was able to upgrade without a drama a slackware 7 box ... is by design "bleeding edge" or is that "bleeding edge of blunders", and if we dont fix it soon, the likes of debian and suse will overtake us by a long mile. ... (Fedora)
Re: Hardware upgrade advice needed ...>fedora recognize and update the new hardware. ... I would also like to increase the swap space on the old drive to ... You didn't mention what O/S you're running and what O/S ... Install the new box with the new hardware just the way you want it. ... (Fedora)
