Availability and plans for upgrading to RHEL5?

Marcel White mwhite at intellimec.com
Tue May 8 13:43:22 CDT 2007


>Andrew Hall wrote:
>> 
>> Isn't this what the FC6 team have already done on RH's behalf? :-)
>
>  Not entirely.  Most fedora people are running desktops.  Those who
are running it on servers are running pretty low end servers.  With the
availability of
> centos, >open suse and ubuntu server.  I'd question the reasoning for
running something so bleeding edge as fedora on a mission critical box.

Bleeding edge ( at the time ) on mission critical box? That sounds like
what I'm going through right now. Lots of things get missed when looking
down the road a year or two. We were looking at adding an external disk
array to our server running fedora core; drivers not supported, os not
supported, etc... 

IMHO this is a headache that would've been avoided if we had of gone
with CentOS, RHEL, or something with a considerably longer lifespan.
Hopefully this advice can help someone avoid my headaches :)

Marcel



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