----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:22 PM Subject: Re: Which distro for the enterprise now? > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:08, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > If you don't want the support from RH but want the next version of Red Hat > > Linux, get Fedora. If you want support, get RHEL. > > > --- > since you keep mentioning this, I will have to give you my preliminary > conclusions about Fedora. > > Great on my desktop - not likely to recommend using it on any client > server. Viability is the problem. > > Short EOL (yes, I understand fedora legacy) > High amounts of experimental packaging I would probably disagree with that - the Core builds are very solid. It's very similar to Debian's stable, testing and unstable versions. If you use FC1 (for instance), you will get a pretty darned stable build. > The purpose of fedora is to keep it on the cutting edge and that's not > my vision for servers. apt-get dist-upgrade is a wonderful thing - until > we are discussing a server. I can get more stability from Debian (I > think). I'd want to do a real world side by side instead of relying on anecdotal reports. I can only talk about my experience. In my case, I have not run across any show-stoppers with FC1. Thomas