On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:13 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > That said, to me the real issues with Fedora on servers is not the > > life-cycle. It's Fedora silently having been converted into a (mostly > > single-user) desktop OS, with many of its key components not being > > suitable for server usage. > > I agree with you that the above is a problem. I disagree that it was > done silently. It's been a massive amount of tooth-gnashing and > argument. > > somehow "fedora" has been convinced that people really want an OS-X > clone in free software but w/o any of the hw integration or > media-capability. I agree with the sentiment behind all of these statements. FWIW, I do run Fedora on one "server" box at home that hosts VMs. At least once a year, I need to spend a day taking out the disks, replacing them with new ones, doing a fresh install (to avoid trouble), and copying data back. It's ok for a simple-ish server, but it doesn't scale at all. Until Fedora really supports the kinds of things needs on a server (not just lifespan, which is secondary to stability of updates) then it is far better to run a derived Enterprise Linux release for that purpose. Jon. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
