<quote who="Mike MacCana">

> > 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. 
> 
> Jeff: That needs a lot more qualification if you don't want it to sound
> like FUD.

It's an opinion. Were I using a Red Hat derivative, I wouldn't run a 'real'
server on 8, 9 or FC1. I'd run RHEL.

> > Fedora's goal is not "to be an utterly stable OS designed for server
> > use". 
> 
> Neither is Linux's. Otherwise binary compatibility wouldn't be broken in
> the kernel and glibc every five seconds.
> 
> People use it for servers anyway with the proviso that they can work
> around the problems that come with such rapid development.

You snipped out that whole bit where I said "if you think you can support
it...". I say exactly the same thing about Debian.

So sensitive. :-)

- Jeff

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