Max Spevack wrote:
Are you using Fedora in a production or live enviornment? Are you
using large deployments of Fedora, in some sort of "critical"
capacity? Do you know someone who is, and will you forward this email
to them?
If you are, I want to hear all about it. I'm trying to gather data
for some Fedora myth-busting exercises, and also to inform some of our
decision making for Fedora 7.
I work at a school in the Middle East with approximately 1000 students.
We have ~100 computers throughout the school.
What's your setup like?
Our servers were originally running WinNT, but last year we transitioned
to Fedora running samba for the servers. We now have two FC5 x86_64
xen servers running (between the two of them) two rsyncing fileservers
(samba, nfs, ldap, dhcp, bind), a web server (apache, mysql), and a mini
system that's only used to update our local yum repository. We also
have one FC4 x86_64 server (samba, nfs) running yet another backup of
the primary fileserver
Our clients are all Win2K and Win98, though we are planning on
transitioning to dual boot FC6/Win2K this year.
What is it about Fedora that made you choose to use it, as opposed to
something else?
I started using Fedora at Core 2 and found the switch from Mandrake 7.x
easy. Fedora was the first Linux system I used that had an rpm
dependency solver (yum). At this point, Fedora does everything I want,
is running cutting (sometimes bleeding) edge software, and I'm familiar
with it. I gave Ubuntu a shot last year (whatever edition was before
Dapper Drake), but quickly returned to my FC5 setup when I realized that
most things in it were equivalent to what I was running in FC3.
What works well for you?
The system is pretty rock solid (especially compared to NT). The only
time I reboot the servers is for kernel upgrades.
What could be better?
Updating Xen and the xen host's kernel has a bad habit of rendering the
guests inoperable until I manually update their kernels. On my FC5
servers, I'm still on the 2.6.16 kernel because of this and the fact
that the hosts became very unstable with the 2.6.17 kernel. (No BZ, sorry)
etc, etc. Anything you care to share with me.
Reply on-list, reply to me directly, whatever works best for you.
Thanks,
Max
If you need anything else, let me know
Jonathan Dieter
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