On 4/18/2014 11:54 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Thomas Cameron > <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > wrote: >> >> That is neither the charter of the project, nor my personal experience. >> I use Fedora for my daily driver at home, I use it for dev work at work, >> my 7 & 11 year old daughters use it for daily driving on their laptops >> (https://fedoraproject.org/en/using/life/thomascameron.html), and with >> *very* limited exceptions, it Just Works(TM). With a modicum of >> planning, upgrading from one distro to the next is super easy, so the >> "it only lasts 6 months" thing is kind of a non-issue. >> >> Quit referring to Fedora as a beta. It's factually incorrect and it >> serves neither the Fedora community nor the greater Open Source and >> Linux communities. That FUD makes people avoid even trying Fedora and >> that's BS. Quit it. >> > > I stopped using Fedora when I tried to upgrade from FC14 to FC15, and it > broke logins. I mean broke them so bad > that I had to go back to single user and try to figure out what > happened. Every time I've done an upgrade, there > was a nasty surprise. > > I'm a system administrator by trade, and I would never, ever run Fedora > on a production system if I could help it. > In fact, at my job I found a Fedora system, and worked actively to get > it over to something stable, like OpenSuSE. > It has its problems, but when you upgrade it, there's a minimum of fuss > and the upgrade path is tested. > > That wouldn't be so bad except Fedora pretty much forces the upgrade by > EOLing things after a year or so. > > I would never recommend using Fedora on a production server if either > stability or an easy upgrade path is a > consideration. I just wouldn't. It's more trouble than it's worth, and > I've got more important things to do than try > to recover from a botched upgrade on a system that people are expecting > to be up in fifteen minutes. > > If I had time to spare, I would absolutely use it as a testbed system to > see what's coming in RHEL, like another poster > said, or maybe a desktop system as long as I had everything religiously > backed up somewhere else so when.. not if, > WHEN... it implodes, at least I haven't lost anything important. > > But as long as you know what you're getting into, do what you want. > That's what open source is all about. The trick > is knowing what you're getting into. And many people see "it's a > general use OS", and think "Oh hey, I can use this > for a server, or a desktop, or..." and get into a lot of trouble. > > This is not FUD... it's just how it is. And yet you are still 'here'? I've linked 1 file to this email: * 6a00d83451eb0069e2011570ea5170970c.png (239 KB) hosted on Box: https://www.box.com/shared/2rb4lpl54xofhj6icfv5 -- David
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