Quoting Thomas Cameron : > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig White" > To: > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:22 PM > Subject: Re: Which distro for the enterprise now? > > > > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:08, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > > > If you don't want the support from RH but want the next version of Red > Hat > > > Linux, get Fedora. If you want support, get RHEL. > > > > > --- > > since you keep mentioning this, I will have to give you my preliminary > > conclusions about Fedora. > > > > Great on my desktop - not likely to recommend using it on any client > > server. Viability is the problem. > > > > Short EOL (yes, I understand fedora legacy) > > High amounts of experimental packaging > > I would probably disagree with that - the Core builds are very solid. It's > very similar to Debian's stable, testing and unstable versions. If you use > FC1 (for instance), you will get a pretty darned stable build. > > > The purpose of fedora is to keep it on the cutting edge and that's not > > my vision for servers. apt-get dist-upgrade is a wonderful thing - until > > we are discussing a server. I can get more stability from Debian (I > > think). > > I'd want to do a real world side by side instead of relying on anecdotal > reports. I can only talk about my experience. In my case, I have not run > across any show-stoppers with FC1. > > Thomas I was using FC1 and to me its nowhere near as stable as my RHEL box.. The main reason i say is the software is newer. The fedora has "stable" new software but i think its not near as stable as some of the revisions that RHEL makes. I have used fedora and apps seem to not wanna die when i kill an app... I use it for a workstation though and i am happy. my 2cents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Toaster-Horde (http://qmailtoaster.clikka.com/)