The thing you need to keep in mind is that the software you're using is coming from the _development_ branch of Fedora. That means little to no assurance of stability. When it breaks, you get to keep all the parts.
Remember that quote I showed from Alan Cox the other day? He hadn't been integrating fixes from IBM, no matter what level of importance IBM's developers had assigned to them. Fine for testing, but I wouldn't want to run anything on it that had any sort of uptime requirements. Essentially, what you're experiencing is a testament to the general stability of Linux, regardless of the platform. Well, that and a run of pretty good luck. I've had a few situations with maintaining Slack/390 where I had to do a hurried back-out because something went seriously wrong on me. If you're now concerned about stability, and security patches, but want to stick with something that looks like Red hat, then I would recommend taking a look at CentOS. If looking like Red Hat isn't important to you, then there are other choices, such as Debian, and Slack/390. If you really, really want to stay with Fedora, then I would say subscribe to one or more of their mailing lists. Essentially, you're acting as a beta tester. Monitor the traffic for major problems, and upgrade when updates have been out for a while without a lot of bug reports. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim J Stalker Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fedora Core Development Fedora Core is working great for my purposes. I don't plan on running WebSphere or much over a standard system. It seems that the recommended linux distributions assume a stable distribution for implementations over and above what many can stand to gain from the stability I'm seeing with Fedora Core. Now, it's difficult knowing there really isn't any support out there for it. I don't know, for example, if I should be updating the Kernel and packages or not given the lack of information from the user community who may also be using Fedora Core for s390. As of the last week of January the linux kernel in my instance on the mainframe is version 2.6.10.1109 _FC4. Since then the kernel has been updated a couple of times and is now version 2.6.11-1.1177_FC4. Is it possible these updates can become unstable? What do you recommend as far as how I should maintain and upgrade Fedora Core Dev in the future? Tim Stalker University of Nebraska ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
