On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:18 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 05:56 +0000, g wrote:
> >
> > It might be better to avoid the use of "labels" as much as possible.
I
> > know it's hard to do in practice. Sadly, I have my share of favorites.
> > "Idiot" just rolls off the fingers when typing it. So does
"Twit".
> > That's a really good one. "Stupid" gets my hackles up though,
I'll
> > battle on that one. <cackles>
> >
> > Again, it's better to not use them at all. Ric
>
>
> A sensible person would run CentOS, or RHEL, or one of the many others, for a
> server. It would be foolish to run any distro, such as Fedora, there are many
> others, in a production type situation. Something that changes as often, as
> quickly, and a radically as Fedora does not, would not, be a good choice for a
> stable LAN or production system. Only if you want to be cheap and get 'the
> free stuff' would it make sense. And then 'they' would have to deal with
the
> problems.
>
> So tell me Ric. What would you call someone that would do this, described
> above? Bob? Fred? Or a fool?
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I have a problem with this thinking...
1. It presupposes what you are calling a production server.
A server where you're not regularly adding new features to its software lineup
2. It attaches a negative aspersion to anyone who doesn't agree
with
your thinking.
Doesn't mean it's wrong.
I can think of several scenarios off the top of my head where a
Fedora
server would probably be preferable to CentOS/RHEL...
- Thin client server (like LTSP) where I want newer end user
applications.
I would think you would wanted tested, proven and stable apps for such a thing.
- Special application server like Ruby on Rails that does things
like
image manipulation.
I don't see what that has to do with Centos vs. Fedora.
So yes, I do think it's not only possible but sometimes useful if
not
necessary to use something a little more bleeding edge than stable as a
server and not at all foolish.
Possible, but rare. To each their own I guess.
Please stop with the over-arching characterizations that only serve
to
further your narrow point of view.
.....
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