Tom Diehl wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Feizhou wrote:
FWIW, I use FC6 as my primary desktop. It's quite stable. I wouldn't
use it for a server however -- too fast of a moving target.
Why not? Fedora as a server is not a problem...
Except that it is supported for a max of approx 13 months. That means
that if
you care at all about security updates, you are going to have to upgrade
the
machine every year. That is not something I want to do with my servers.
Automated deployment.
IMO, servers should be good for at least 4-5 years, maybe longer.
Depends on
how long the hardware is useful and what kind of new features you
want/need.
Depends on the requirements.
The OS is basically a commodity item nowadays. Whatever that is stable
and performs can be dropped in especially if the software stack is small.
Fedora as a desktop however...I don't know...the few times I have seen
Fedora Core 5/6 desktops in action, Firefox froze, keyboard input
would not work all of a sudden...
Fedora for the desktop has been vaer stable for me and it gives me the
latest
and greatest bells and whistles I want. The same frequent upgrade cycle
exists
on the desktop but I am more tolerent of upgrading my desktop machine
once a
year than upgrading servers. It is much easier to rebuild a desktop than
a production server.
Whether a production server is easier to rebuild than a desktop really
depends on how you go about doing it.
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