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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsFedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsPosted Jul 25, 2006 12:25 UTC (Tue) by Junior_Samples (guest, #26737)In reply to: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements by jimmybgood Parent article: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements
You nailed it, jimmybgood. No one in their right mind would recommend Fedora for serious business use. If your main business is something other than fiddling with and configuring operating systems, Fedora can become a terrible time sink. Just when you have a Fedora system nailed down, configured, and secure, you know it will be soon obsolete. Although the Fedora crowd is loath to admit it, Fedora has "hobbyist aficionado software" written all over it. And the idea that Fedora upgrades are painless, depends on your threshold for pain. I've never seen a Fedora version change without issues. Someone looking for a stable, professional, and Redhat flavored free OS for a real business environment better look at CentOS instead.
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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 25, 2006 12:58 UTC (Tue) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975) [Link] > And the idea that Fedora upgrades are painless,> depends on your threshold for pain. I've never > seen a Fedora version change without issues.
Just a data point for you... I have a hosted server that was delivered with FC1 (it was that or Windows). I have yum updated it through FC2, FC3 and FC4 (yes that includes the 2.4 FC1 --> 2.6 FC2 changeover) via ssh without problems. Now admittedly this does not have much of X on it because it is a headless server box. But still I was very pleased with it being remotely updatable like that and it certainly does remove the pain in my experience.
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 25, 2006 13:02 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] Quote:Although the Fedora crowd is loath to admit it, Fedora has "hobbyist aficionado software" written all over it. End Quote.
No, We're not loath to admit it. It's on the main page of the website. A distribution for the hobbyist/expert segment of the user population.
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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 25, 2006 13:15 UTC (Tue) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link] No, We're not loath to admit it. It's on the main page of the website. A distribution for the hobbyist/expert segment of the user population.I'm not trolling (I'm a happy FC5 user on a home desktop machine), but where, exactly, does it say that? I can't find "hobby" (or any similar sentiment) on the homepage of either fedoraproject.org or fedora.redhat.com.
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 25, 2006 18:30 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] hmm Well it _used_ to say it. :)
I swear! The fedora.redhat.com page used to say something about 'home user/expert' or some such thing. It's been a long time since I went to that page so I don't know when it got changed..
sorry, But We're not loath to admit it!! :)
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