Scott Marlowe wrote:
Personally, I use Fedora, and my servers have been quite stable. One of our
main web servers running Fedora:
It's not that there can't be stable releases of FC, it's that it's not
the focus of that project. So, if you get lucky, great! I can't
imagine running a production DB on FC, with it's short supported life
span and focus on development and not stability.
I use Fedora, and it was a mistake. I am looking for a better solution. Fedora
has been very stable (uptime of 430 days on one server), BUT...
Realistically, the lifetime of a release is as low as SIX MONTHS. We bought
servers just as a FC release was coming out, and thought we'd be safe by going
with the older, tested release. But six months after that, the next FC release
came out, and the version we'd installed fell off the support list.
It takes almost no time with Fedora to run into big problems. Maybe there's a
security release of ssh, you try to compile it, but it needs the latest gcc,
but that's not available on your unsupported version of FC that you installed
less than a year ago.
Or maybe you need a new version of PHP to pass audit with your credit-card
processor, but again, your FC release isn't supported so you have to uninstall
the FC PHP, get the source, and compile PHP from scratch ... on and on it goes.
Fedora is a very nice project, but it's not suitable for production database
servers.
This discussion has been very helpful indeed, and we appreciate everyone's
contributions. I'm leaning towards a stable Debian release for our next
upgrade, but there are several other well-reasoned suggestions here.
Craig
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