Fedora in podcast - Run Your Own Server Episode 5

Fedora Project history. RHEL Beta?
connection between RHEL - Fedora Project - Community
Fedora release cycle
Why is Fedora good as a server?
Fedora installation process
- sneak peak of RHEL
- SELinux - suggested to be disabled
- LVM - explanation what is used for, but they don't use it and they personally disable it
- Firewall - turned off because they make custom firewall scripts
- SELinux - explanation of functionality, bad experience with it
lockdowns on new installed fedora box
- chkconfig --list
- never run runlevel 5 on server! No X!
- dislike for lots of services running by default
- chkconfig --level 345 <service> off
- block ssh access to fixed IP address or host
- denyhosts and allowhosts
fedora updates
- yum updates
- repositories
- reload fedora every 6 months because of release cycle :(
- end of live for fedora - 1 year, nightmare if you have lots of fedora boxes
Conclusion
- you can see what will RHEL look like in 2-3 years
- not recommended for producion server
- good for workstation