Re: Fedora Questions

Marc Schwartz wrote:
"Herb Stein" <herb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Marc Schwartz" <marc_schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:m3od6gax2w.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Herb Stein" <herb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I currently have FC5 installed on a server, but the question is :what does
the "ant_" indicate in front of things like apache when doing a "rpm -qa"?

-- Herb
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant

You do realize that FC5 has been unsupported for almost a year, so you
have not been getting patches and security updates?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle
I realize that. FC5 was current when the server was last in production.
I'll grab the latest version tonight. Right now I'm just trying to demonstate
feasibility of a concept to a client.

Thanks for you observation.

Not for nothing, but if this is a mission critical server, don't install
F9 and I would even advise against Fedora in general. There are those
who use Fedora on servers, but if you want an RH based, free Linux
distribution, check into CentOS. It is based upon RHEL, which is better
suited to server platforms, where stability, not having the latest
and greatest of everything, is the priority.

CentOS, like RHEL, has a big problem. It's always at least a year if not 3 behind Fedora in open source toolkits. The result is that you have to go to non-RHEL repositories, like EPEL and RPMforge, to get quite useful tools for new services. I've been through this extensively with Xen, Musicbrainz, and bugzilla, for years.

F9 right now has several components, including Xorg, which are
pre-release and given that we are less than 30 days since release,
updates have been fast and furious. I am running F9 on my laptop, but
would not recommend it for servers.

If you want to stay with Fedora, install F8 which is more mature at this
point and will be supported for a while yet.

My $0.02.

Marc

That makes good sense, and it's a straightforward upgrade down the road when F9 has settled down a bit more.
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