Re: Fedora vs RHEL

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On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 13:24 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> I would agree that in a corporate environment, Fedora release cycle is
> too often. I personnally run Fedora on my work laptop, but if I were
> to administer the whole ~150 desktops of the company I wont use Fedora
> but CentOS.

I tend to agree.  However, if you're a place that's gotten used to
having to regularly wipe and install Windows boxes, as many will do,
then it's possible that having to restart with a newer version of Fedora
once or twice a year may be just as palatable.  But I'd definitely put
servers on a long term OS, like CentOS, even if the clients use Fedora
and are considered disposable machines.  Though it can be easier to
manage a system where they all run the same OS, so CentOS on them might
be simplest.  And with a longer term OS, like CentOS instead of Fedora,
you're not going to suddenly face major annoying changes to how you use
your computer, like how KDE 4 and Gnome 3 irritated the masses.

If you're a place that has previously paid for Windows, then paying for
RHEL ought to be similarly palatable.  Again, you could use it for one
or two machines, the one's your mostly likely to need technical support
from Red Hat for, and the other basic client machines using the free
CentOS.  Though, if considering a paid OS, you have to consider whether
the type of service you're going to be able to get is useful to you.

Mention was made of having experienced security holes with Windows, so
the concept of keeping a system up-to-date ought to be already accepted.
Keeping on using *any* out-of-date system is a risk, some are easily
demonstratively so, others are harder to show that there is an actual
risk rather than just a theoretical one, but there's still a risk.

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