On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 05:17, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="David Uzzell"> > > > I have servers which are PLAIN redhat 7.3 and I am not under any chances > > going to be upgrading them inside the Redhat line. > > > > The Question is! Can they be upgraded/crossgraded directly to fedora and > > then upgraded on fedora line? > > > > HAs anyone played with fedora to see how stable it is under load? I mean > > the server's I want to run it on are at the moment RH7.3 running about > > 1mil page hits a day on Apache and MySQL! Does fedora's stablilty compair > > with RH's? > > Opinion: For many of the reasons why sensible people chose not to upgrade > their servers to Red Hat 8 and 9, you probably shouldn't upgrade your server > to Fedora Core 1. That's mostly to do with goals, level of testing and stuff > like that.
Jeff: That needs a lot more qualification if you don't want it to sound like FUD. David: Fedora is stable in the same way that any new Linux is: newer versions of things like Bind and Apache mean you might have to do a little tweaking after you upgrade. Newer versions of things like the c libraries mean you might need to upgrade some additional apps to newer versions, eg, your JRE. You could also download ISO images of one of the RHEL rebuilt projects, which provide a downloadable distro based on the RHEL source code. In either of these cases, you wouldn't get Red Hat support. Which may be fine if you do the support yourself. Good like finding anyone who'll give you support for free for any Linux distro. > Fedora's goal is not "to be an utterly stable OS designed for > server use". Neither is Linux's. Otherwise binary compatibility wouldn't be broken in the kernel and glibc every five seconds. People use it for servers anyway with the proviso that they can work around the problems that come with such rapid development. Mike -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
