Akbar, You insist on steering this thread off course don't you :-) This is not the correct forum for your views below. On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:45:49PM -0800, Akbar S. Ahmed wrote: > > > Luiz Rocha wrote: > > > And being a RHEL R&D platform means to me that Fedora can, with caution, > > be used in production enviroment. Something that would also benefit with > >the avaliability of a good doc base. > > Off the bat I'd like to say that I think good docs are a great idea. > Fedora needs good docs. That goes without saying. > > On another note... > > I'll quote Red Hat staff here, "Fedora is not a production environment!" > Maybe not exact but close enough. > > What I've expressed were views repeated of what I've heard from or read > from Red Hat corp/staff. Fedora is an R&D platform. R&D means not stable > (ask anyone with experience in an R&D division). You can disagree, and > that's fine, but the facts are the facts. > > When asked which Linux distro to use by my company's clients, we say > RHEL. It's stable, supported, and production quality. > > To repeat, if you want a stable production quality Linux then use RHEL. > > Other than RHEL, the only other production quality (server) Linuxes are > Novell/Suse and Debian (Stable). > > If you doubt me, then ask one of the RH people to chime in. If they say > that Fedora is a stable platform that is "suitable for production use" > then I'll stand corrected. I have no problems with that. > > From the web: > 1.) http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html > The Fedora Project Users == Early adopters, enthusiasts, developers > Red Hat Enterprise Linux == Mainstream production environments > > 2.) > http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/11/21/1420242.shtml?tid=106&tid=110&tid=126&tid=163&tid=185&tid=187 > > Matthew Szulik said, "We hope that consumer-focused technologies will > thrive and mature in the Fedora Project setting. When the code is > production quality, Red Hat will make them available as part of a > supported distribution." > > Note the "when the code is production quality..." statement. > > Sorry to keep this alive, > Akbar > > > > > > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- Scott Gose gose@xxxxxxxxxxx
