Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Ian Chapman wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> Anyone who has deployed fedora on desktops in a large enterprise, 
>> accepts the updates and has never had problems please feel free to 
>> jump in and contradict me - I'd love to be proven wrong here, but even 
>> FC6 recently pushed an update kernel that wouldn't boot on some pretty 
>> mainstream Dell and IBM machines with scsi controllers.
> 
> Seriously Les, I don't know if this qualifies but we support 180 Fedora 
> desktops in a university and a handful of servers running Fedora. The 
> rest are primarily RHEL with the odd Solaris box. 

Thanks, that's better than I would have expected from my own experience.

> The hardware has 
> changed almost every year but the number of machines has remained 
> stable. I can't recall a kernel update that has caused major breakage 
> and since the RedHat days we've used FC2, FC4, FC5 and now F7. The only 
> real PITA with regards to kernel updates is reinstalling the NVIDIA 
> drivers after a kernel update.

Anyone using firewire or the MPT scsi controllers that Dell or IBM have 
shipped?  I guess IDE has mostly worked OK.

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   Les Mikesell
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