On 01/10/2011 05:55 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 01/10/2011 05:27 PM, seth vidal wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:21 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>>> We do this because the lifecycle of Fedora is not compatible with >>>>> providing and maintaining a long life hosting infrastructure. Does that >>>>> mean that Fedora is not an ideal platform for server deployments lasting >>>>> longer than a year and a half? Yes, in my humble opinion. >>>> >>>> You are expecting users to live with this life-cycle (on servers and >>>> clients), so you telling us that Fedora is unsuitable for Fedora's own >>>> servers seems rather poor to me. >>> >>> We want to provide stability, which does not mean constantly upgrading >>> the server's base os. >> But you are expecting Fedora's users to do so? >> > > I'm fairly certain Seth isn't expecting Fedora users to use Fedora on > their server. > > We have this conversation every few months. I am well aware about this. > It's just about picking the > right tool for the job. Partially agreed - However, your answer implies that Fedora is not the right tool for the job - I question this. > Too many people think that every distro should be > used for every use case and that one distro is somehow 'better'. That's not what I think. I think that Linux distros (Unlike other OSes) need to be versatile toolkits which can be deployed for various use-cases on servers as well as on clients, on single user systems as well as on multi-user systems. > It's just about identifying what ones needs are, and picking the best OS > for the need. I don't agree with this. Provided the versalitity and flexibity Linux has (had?), to me, it's a matter of "picking a usable configuration of a distro" and not a matter of picking "the optimal OS". Or differently: As everywhere in life, you need to compromise between "the optimal tool" and the tools you have/you can afford/you can operate. That said, o me personally, RHEL is not an alternative to Fedora for various, technical and other reasons (#1 reason: lack of man-power to cope with "yet another distro"). > In Fedora's case we do have Fedora on some servers, but for > most of our needs RHEL is a better fit. Well, ... you are missing many opportunities to demonstrate/test Fedora's suitability/identify where Fedora's design lacks on servers. Ralf _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
