Re: Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

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Timothy Murphy wrote:

I haven't noticed any difference between CentOS and Fedora-8,
which I'm running on my other machines.
In fact, I don't know which I am on (when accessing remotely)
except by looking at the name.
Based on past experience, you could expect the CentOS box to keep
running with nothing but occasional 'yum update's for 6 more years.

True (well, true after s/6/2/), but irrelevant to the point I was making.

From http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5
  "We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"
After 2010 you only get security/maintenance updates, though.

Even if F8 updates don't actually break your working system (which is likely
to depend on your specific hardware) in less than a year you'll stop
getting updates and as soon as a new security issue is discovered you'll
be forced to re-install some wildly different version.

Personally, I keep both CentOS and Fedora up to date.
No Fedora updates have ever "broken" my system,
and I have been running Fedora since it started.

No firewire?  No MPT scsi?  No CIPE VPNs?

I've never been "forced to re-install some wildly different version".

The FC1->2, FC3-4, FC6-7 transitions had huge differences. If you don't use any of the features you might not notice the difference. Try relying on backups on firewire drives (broken in FC3, most of FC5, or connecting offices with CIPE vpn's (gone since FC1..). The disk/partition names have changed, filesystem options have changed such that creating an ext3 file with current options makes something an older system can't read. Apache's mod_perl that was finally integrated correctly back in RH7.3 has been a mixed bag in fedora through FC6. Sound has been hit-or-miss with huge differences in each version. Fixing any of these things can take days - which may not sound bad but if you manage a few hundred machines, you can't keep up with a few days per machine per year.

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