I'm inclined to stick with Fedora mainly because my entire experience with
Linux is confined to RedHat. I'll do as you suggest, jon for awhile those
lists. My Linux install is pretty new. Essentially I need it to provide a
Web server, database and other tools for serving web pages. So far it's
working very well for that. Maybe someone could brief me here on some of
the essential differences between CentOS and Fedora, those that are likely
important in an s390 environment, etc. I appreciate all the information my
initial post about Fedora raised. And I'll lurk here for awhile as well.
Thanks,
Tim Stalker
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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
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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
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