I am currently in a dilemma of whether to use Fedora Core 1 or use other distribution for my production servers.
My sincere, personal opinion: use Fedora.
I thought it was fortunate that Fedora is there, but I can't trust it since it is just a test version.
Please don't listen to the idiots who say Fedora "is just a test version."
Fedora Core 1 is exactly what Red Hat Linux 10 would have been. The major changes are that (1) Red Hat has opened up the development process to the community and will allow much, much greater participation (with the accompanying much greater responsibility); (2) the pace of development and integration of new tools and technologies will be somewhat faster; and (3) they do not offer nor sell commercial support.
In the past, some people said Red Hat Linux was too slow to bring in cutting-edge technology, while others said that progress was too quick and they needed servers that didn't change for several years. With the split between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RH attempts to please both while improving profitability. Red Hat is no use to any of us if they're broke, right?
Fedora should be approximately as stable as Red Hat Linux was, if not more since the whole devel process and many of the Linux tools are more mature. It is also Open Source, Free (as in "with freedom"), and free (as in "at no cost"). You are likely to enjoy it just as much, if not more, than you enjoyed RHL.
There is too much fear-mongering out there... if you cannot afford to pay money for a Linux distro, you should be happy with Fedora. You *could* also look at WBEL or other "rebuilt from SRPMS" copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... those will offer more robustness and stability *if* their communities can keep up with patches and updates. Whether or not they will be able to do so is, of course, too early to tell.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
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