Yes, but Fedora is not recommended by redhat for production servers,
Or at least not by Red Hat's marketing department!
From what I can tell, this is like the "Mozilla is not for end users" mantra that went out the window the moment AOL let them go: a way to convince people to go with the product that actually makes them money.
so I'm hesitant to even try it in my environment myself - Plus, I hear there are boatloads of patches and fixes for it every other day..
Where did you hear that? As an actual Fedora Core user, I can tell you that the patch/fix rate is no higher than that for Red Hat!
Or are you thinking of the test releases? Because those, by definition, are going to have daily changes.
The main disadvantage of Fedora is the fact that they expect you to upgrade each time a new version is released (every 6-10 months) instead of hanging onto one version for a few years and then upgrading. Fortunately, there's the fedoralegacy.org project to provide fixes past the official end-of-life of each release.
Also, while I'm sure it's been mentioned earlier in this thread, Fedora Legacy is providing post-EOL updates for Red Hat 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
