gaurav wrote: > Hi guys, > I want to know if fedora is good enough for production > Even though I not much problem running my fc servers all people I have > consulted say I should use debian (and no I cannot pay for RHEL).....is > it based on facts like security holes, bugs and response , patches > availability or some general perception ??
In summary, it depends. If you want the latest softwares, use Fedora. However, be prepared that in a year's time, you will have to upgrade your system to the newer version Fedora. Use Debian if you are happy with older softwares and you want to keep your system in the same state for quite a few years. As far as security of a system goes, that depends on the sys admin maintaining the system. Both the distros take good care to lock down critical packages. If you need the latest versions of, say Apache/MySQL/PHP, to get your work done, Fedora Core is a good choice. However, I would advice you to remain one step behind the latest release of FC. i.e. when they release FC-3, you use FC-2. The major disadvantage of FC is the way they ignore legacy systems. They have a Fedora Legacy project, to take care of FC-1 and FC-2 . Theoretically speaking, if suppose there is a bug in the mysql-server package that was distributed with FC-1, Fedora legacy will release the fix. However, the legacy project has a track record of not doing that. Debian is very conservative in what packages it releases as stable. They stay many steps behind the latest release of any software. On the plus side, they have a very good record of maintaining older packages and releasing timely patches. Their package management is quite good. They have a big user base too. -- Raj Shekhar Y! : Operations Engineer MySQL DBA, programmer and slacker Y!IM : lunatech3007 home : http://rajshekhar.net blog : http://rajshekhar.net/blog/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
