On Wednesday 07 December 2011 20:19:31 Alan Cox wrote: > > > did you ever work in an environment with a lot of servers and > > > users and used rsync / nfs? > > > > Why would you even consider using Fedora in such an environment? If you > > have a server farm with shared users and use rsync/nfs/whatever, and > > you have the > > Why not (rsync btw translates names fine) Because Fedora has a fast lifecycle, and introduces major system changes in every version. Ok, sure, you certainly *can* maintain Fedora machines in a production environment, but it typically involves more work than using a LTS distro like RHEL. That was the point I was trying to make. > > whole thing (or a part of it) running on Fedora, then you'd better be > > prepared to do some nontrivial amount of work when upgrading the Fedora > > machines. > > And presumably RHEL in future. Umm, AFAIK RHEL explicitly doesn't support upgrades across major releases. And they wouldn't dare changing the UID lower limit between point releases, IMHO. The thing is --- you need to do that "some nontrivial amount of work" when upgrading the OS in both cases (Fedora and RHEL). It's just that with RHEL you do that kind of work once every 5-7 years, while with Fedora you do it every 6 months. > Remind me never to hire you as a consultant 8) :-) Don't worry, I have no plans on going back to anything IT related professionally. Computers are consuming quite enough of my time already as just a hobby... Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
