Compat- packages in Fedora

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 15:45 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Now, I also have a concern - why is it crazy to run Fedora as a server
>> right now?  I'm doing it (for just over a month), and I've had nothing
>> but excellent service due to the great updated software online.
>> Granted, maybe I'm not running Google on my servers, but still, for
>> server components, is Fedora really so unstable?  We all (or most of us,
>> anyway), run Fedora at home and develop on it with few problems, right?
> 
> Good point.  I've been doing it since RH9, with one bare-metal reinstall
> for one box at FC1->FC2.  Mostly yum upgrades.
> 

So have I, but it's beside the point of OP that I was trying to make. A 
yum upgrade on a server every 6 months is only so much feasible in most 
production environments is what I was trying to say.

-Jeroen