Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

[Les Mikesell]

Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
> Yes, and typically to support anything recent you have too many add-ons 
> on the enterprise OSes, if you are in a fast moving enterprise 
> environment RHEL won't work.

Fast moving and enterprise are words you don't usually see together. 
Don't you have to keep decades-old processes running?

> RHEL is probably quite good for any of the nice simple static enterprise 
> environments, but most would argue there you should probably lock 
> everything down so tight that few kernel updates/userspace are even 
> required for anything, the problem is in an environment were you are 
> constantly having to bring in new hardware that does not work on the 
> older release, where you cannot wait 6 months for RHEL to catch up.

I can't recall ever being in a position of "having to bring in new 
hardware".  What scenario forces this issue on you?  I haven't noticed a 
shortage of vendors who will sell RHEL supported boxes.  But it sounds 
like you have an interesting job...

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  Les Mikesell
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