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

[David]

On 4/18/2014 11:54 PM, Russell Miller wrote:
> 
> On Apr 18, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com <mailto: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.



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  David