On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:00:04PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > Seriously, I wouldn't run Fedora in a production environment, not > *because its bad* (its not), but because Redhat does not offer > commercial support like they do for RHEL.
I'm not so concerned about the lack of commercial support (when given the choice, I'd use Debian rather than Redhat Enterprise, anyway, and have done so on a number of large systems). My concern with running Fedora on production servers is that the update packages aren't generally patch backports to the version of software that was released in the core distribution, but are often completely new releases. For example, since installing FC4 on a couple of machines that are production servers (not my decision, I must stress), the kernel has been upgraded from 2.6.12 to 2.6.14, rather than just backporting whatever fixes that were included to 2.6.12 as would be done in RHEL or Debian. As a result, this broke the HP utility needed for managing the RAID on the machines (and I've had to change them back to 2.6.12). At least with RHEL, you can be sure that such updates won't make large changes to your system. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
