On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:43 -0500, Allan West wrote: > On 12/16/10 1:15 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:35 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> Yes, please do yourself, the next sysadmin, and the whole IT industry > >> a favor and use a server-centric distro. > > +1 > > Use CentOS > >> Fedora and Ubuntu are nice > >> for the desktop, but running a server is not just a simple matter of > >> getting the most recent packages. > > Fedora is a [self-proclaimed] developer-oriented distribution; thus not > > suitable for a production environment [that doesn't make it bad, it just > > fills a specific niche, just like CentOS]. > Tangentially, how do you explain to developers that they have to pry > themselves off the bleeding edge tools in "developer-oriented" distros > when it comes time for a production instance?
You don't, this is an error of approach. You don't "explain to", you "inform that". > I'm getting tired of, > "version x+2 has been out for months," as a reason for package requests > far beyond the RHEL, or even CentOS, current version. I don't have much a problem with this; production systems rarely require bleeding edge. And keeping a few more current packages specific to the server's role up-to-date isn't that big a deal [PostgreSQL, Cyrus, whatever]. That is the server's role after all. But all the rest of the system can be 'ignored' as it doesn't constantly churn. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
