On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:08 +0530, 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 ?? >
Part of it is fact, and a part is perception. For perception, take a look at http://atulchitnis.net/writings/eyeballtrap.php And about the facts... Sysadmins running production servers tend to be a bit conservative about the software running on them. e.g. you will still find people running Red Hat Linux 7.3 (I am one of them). Debian stable appeals to these people because of the emphasis given on stability rather than being current. Fedora Core packages a lot of software which are in their current versions. With not much history behind them, these sysadmins find it uncomfortable to risk their systems on such unknowns. On the other hand, Fedora Core is good enough for most other applications - you can run web staging servers, mail servers, database servers etc. without too much trouble. Just remember that whenever people talk about "stability", every one has a different view on what stability means .. and in many cases it is different from what they actually need. -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ 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/
