Am 08.12.2011 02:40, schrieb Marko Vojinovic: > 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. yes, that it for what you get paied as administrator >>> 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. Umm Fedora does not recommend upgrade via yum and i did it some hundrets of times since FC5 until now > 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. well, and if you are a company which develops web-based systems and hosting them on your own infrastructure you bave to wait 5-7 years for major upgrades of php/mysql which is quite impossible in this business and if you start include third-party repos to get newer versions you lose the support - this 7 years support is for people relying on crappy apllications which permanently break if anything on the system is changed but not if your business is IT-centred because 5-7 years in the IT is a very very long time
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