F8 vs F9

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:05 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
> <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>         I need to install a few new systems in the next
>         few weeks.  My requirements are: apache; C++ code
>         development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above
>         all, stability.  I have heard a rumor that I might
>         be better off with F8 than F9.  Is this true?
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Mike.
>  
> You know, those on this list may beat me up for this, but if you're
> looking for stability and least fuss, I'd suggest CentOS instead.  As
> someone else pointed out, Fedora is for people who want to get their
> hands dirty and try out the bleeding edge - and it doesn't sound like
> that's what you're after.

This is absolutely right. I run F9 on my desktop but my institution's
servers run on CentOS and that's not going to change. I wish more people
would understand that Fedora is basically a testbed, then we might get a
lower rate of this-damn-thing-doesn't-work-I'm-moving-to-Ubuntu
messages.

poc