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?
The company I work for has recently made an official policy to use
Fedora always (the only two exceptions being for machines that will run
software made by a partner, who only supports debian or when the client
requires FreeBSD).
Just as an example of our usage, one of the clients I'm responsible for
has a Fedora Core 5 mail server , built around postfix with Fedora
Directory Server, spamassassin, clamav and webmail through Egroupware.
Other fedora 5 machine runs samba and will run the usual LAMP setup for
their application (as soon as I get php4 compiled with MMcache). The
proxy is also Core 5, with squid , CBQ, openvpn for connection of their
other office and synchronization of the directory.
What is it about Fedora that made you choose to use it, as opposed to
something else?
It's easy to install. Updates usually come fast. Full of features that
other distributions may have only in the next release . And the security
record (at least for the machines I've worked with) is excellent. Not to
mention that FC + FE provides all the packages I usually need for
servers (for desktops, the other repositories provide what is necessary,
like support for certain problematic media formats). And it's a good
platform to test some software that we sometimes need to install on RHEL
servers (and the backporting needed is usually minimal or unnecessary
from our testing in FC to deployment in RHEL).
Ease to upgrade is another big plus. I've never made dist upgrades
between releases, but according to what I've read in this topic and
several other posts, this is fairly trivial.
What could be better?
IMHO, Kde could get a little more love, as well as Evolution (specially
with the exchange-connector). I've had to fall back to using OWA since
the last two connector updates, because Evolution would crash every two
minutes (and I couldn't get a good backtrace to report this issue).
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Pedro Macedo
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