Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

[Roger Heflin]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mauriat M wrote:
>>
>> Fedora ships buggy kernels. As stated previously this is more
>> upstream's fault, 
> 
> Beg your pardon, but just because someone writes broken code that _does 
> not_ force a distribution to ship it.
> 

The problem is that the enterprise OS's ship buggy kernels too, I have found at 
least one bug in most of the recent enterprise kernels (RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and 
SLES9-never tested SLES10), and some of those bugs were very very ugly had at 
least one of them had long since been fixed upstream, and at least one of those 
bugs *NEVER* existed in the kernel.org kernels at all.

And lets take RHEL5 initial release, it did not support file systems larger then 
8TB (ext3 only, no XFS), it did not support Areca and 3ware PCIe controllers 
even though those drivers had been out for 6+ months at the time they shipped 
RHEL5, and those are most definitely enterprise boards.   And the second you add 
a driver and/or XFS on to RHEL5 you are now tainted and *UNSUPPORTED*.

                              Roger