<quote who="David Uzzell"> > I have servers which are PLAIN redhat 7.3 and I am not under any chances > going to be upgrading them inside the Redhat line. > > The Question is! Can they be upgraded/crossgraded directly to fedora and > then upgraded on fedora line? > > HAs anyone played with fedora to see how stable it is under load? I mean > the server's I want to run it on are at the moment RH7.3 running about > 1mil page hits a day on Apache and MySQL! Does fedora's stablilty compair > with RH's?
Opinion: For many of the reasons why sensible people chose not to upgrade their servers to Red Hat 8 and 9, you probably shouldn't upgrade your server to Fedora Core 1. That's mostly to do with goals, level of testing and stuff like that. Fedora's goal is not "to be an utterly stable OS designed for server use". So it's probably not a good choice. Plus it's not supported in quite the same way RH7.3 was. If you're a smart cookie, feel you can support a Fedora system without requiring any commercial help, and are comfortable with the upgrade cycle and commitment to stability (which may feel like "none", depending on how you rate stability), then going with Fedora will keep you up to date with new software and within familiar Red Hat land. Option: You can always rebuild RHEL3 software for Fedora, if there are specific things you want from it. In my case, I use the RHEL kernels on Debian (I'm hoping to get some kernel-patch packages into unstable at some stage, so everyone else can do this with close to 0 hassle). Some tough choices in there. :-) - Jeff -- Come to gnome.conf.au 2004! http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2004/gnome.conf.au/ "I love 2001. Especially the beginning with the proto-humans screaming at each other and beating each other to death with rocks and bones. That very neatly encapsulates my whole concept of interpersonal relationships." - Branden Robinson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
