Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
You need to remember that Fedora release has a short life cycle, different of rhel, centos, sl, that has a long life cycle.
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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.comwrote:
Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
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On 04/01/2011 07:03 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
Applications are *far* lest tested before being allowed into Fedora. In fact, part of the reason for Fedora's creation was to be a "bleeding edge" test bed for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. Only things that prove reliable, stable and secure make it into RHEL.
So the reason not to use Fedora for a server is that it is not as reliable or stable. Not to say it's bad, mind you. It's used as a workstation OS for many, many people. However, a random crash, hang or other problem is usually a mere nuisance. On a server, the same can't be said.
On 04/01/2011 06:03 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
As has been said, if you're going to do a production server that will live more than a year, you'll probably want to use CentOS, not Fedora. Keeping Fedora up to date and "production quality" is just too much work.
If it's a server you're running for yourself, then go for it.
On 2 April 2011 00:24, Steven Stern subscribed-lists@sterndata.com wrote:
On 04/01/2011 06:03 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
As has been said, if you're going to do a production server that will live more than a year, you'll probably want to use CentOS, not Fedora. Keeping Fedora up to date and "production quality" is just too much work.
If it's a server you're running for yourself, then go for it.
Yes, I have run FC4. and FC5 for several years, then FC10 on two mirrored servers, for several more years.
No complaints in all that time, very good up times.
Aaron
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 00:03:46 +0100, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Someone said not to use F14 for servers. What is the reasoning of this if it is true ?
Because of Fedora's short life cycle there is a lot more work to maintain than some other Linux distros.
Surely with SELinux its going to be more secure than other distros ?
Other distros use selinux. And there is a lot more to managing security than selinux.
Fedora is fine for a hobby user who wants to play with the latest and greatest on their server. It probably is not a good choice for an organization to use for their servers.
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