On 4/1/19 8:58 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:51:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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I think that the term "stable" here should be replaced with "buggy".
RHEL is intensely buggy and their bugs seldom get fixed; Fedora has a
few bugs, but they are rapidly taken care of.
I'm confused, maybe because I've never tried RHEL. (No way I
could ever afford it.) Where do these bugs come from, and how do they get
into RHEL??
You can run it for free by running a clone, such as CentOS
and Scientific Linux.
The bugs basically come from RHEL's habit of taking a defunct,
unsupported version of Fedora, bugs and all and freezing it.
They will fix security bugs that embarrass them, but that
is basically it. The idea is to have a predicable platform
that has minimal enhancement so as to not break software.
This all sounds good, but software always has thing to improve
and bugs to fix. The developers of software (upstream, etc.)
can't help you as RHEL is just to stinkin' out of date.
So if you are happy with what you got, great. Don't improve
anything or fix any bugs in your stuff, or your are dead meat.
If you are a large enough company to have your own staff of
developers that can SPECIFICALLY develop for RHEL and you
control over all your critical software, it is not much of
any issue.
For the rest of us, Fedora is a shining example of Kaisen at
work (Kaisen is Dr. Demming's phrase for "Constant Improvement").
When I first started using Fedora a year and a half ago,
I literally giggled at every thing that started working
correctly. And Fedora fixed every single think I found wrong
in a matter of weeks, not decades (literally), with
the exception that I still can't read my wife's Android
tablet (I could on RHEL).
I still get excited ever time Fedora boots up. I adore Fedora.
RHEL has its place, but not in a dynamic environment. It is great
for appliances that never change. But yo can do that with any
OS by turning off the updates. (Windows 10 users can attest to that!)
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