Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

[Russell Miller]

On Apr 18, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> 
> That is neither the charter of the project, nor my personal experience.
> I use Fedora for my daily driver at home, I use it for dev work at work,
> my 7 & 11 year old daughters use it for daily driving on their laptops
> (https://fedoraproject.org/en/using/life/thomascameron.html), and with
> *very* limited exceptions, it Just Works(TM). With a modicum of
> planning, upgrading from one distro to the next is super easy, so the
> "it only lasts 6 months" thing is kind of a non-issue.
> 
> Quit referring to Fedora as a beta. It's factually incorrect and it
> serves neither the Fedora community nor the greater Open Source and
> Linux communities. That FUD makes people avoid even trying Fedora and
> that's BS. Quit it.
> 

I stopped using Fedora when I tried to upgrade from FC14 to FC15, and it broke logins.  I mean broke them so bad
that I had to go back to single user and try to figure out what happened.  Every time I've done an upgrade, there
was a nasty surprise.

I'm a system administrator by trade, and I would never, ever run Fedora on a production system if I could help it.
In fact, at my job I found a Fedora system, and worked actively to get it over to something stable, like OpenSuSE.
It has its problems, but when you upgrade it, there's a minimum of fuss and the upgrade path is tested.

That wouldn't be so bad except Fedora pretty much forces the upgrade by EOLing things after a year or so.

I would never recommend using Fedora on a production server if either stability or an easy upgrade path is a
consideration.  I just wouldn't.  It's more trouble than it's worth, and I've got more important things to do than try
to recover from a botched upgrade on a system that people are expecting to be up in fifteen minutes.

If I had time to spare, I would absolutely use it as a testbed system to see what's coming in RHEL, like another poster
said, or maybe a desktop system as long as I had everything religiously backed up somewhere else so when.. not if,
WHEN... it implodes, at least I haven't lost anything important.

But as long as you know what you're getting into, do what you want.  That's what open source is all about.  The trick
is knowing what you're getting into.  And many people see "it's a general use OS", and think "Oh hey, I can use this
for a server, or a desktop, or..."  and get into a lot of trouble.

This is not FUD... it's just how it is.

--Russell

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