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Fedora and long term support

Posted Oct 19, 2008 19:31 UTC (Sun) by Simetrical (guest, #53439)
In reply to: Fedora and long term support by pcampe
Parent article: Fedora and long term support

See the reasons for the choice (and other common points) in the Wikimedia Ubuntu migration FAQ. Partly it was just a matter of preference (like APT better than yum, more familiar with Debian-based distros), but also because of concrete objections to Fedora (too bleeding-edge) and RHEL/CentOS (too old).

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Posted Oct 20, 2008 2:52 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

My God. That FAQ pretty much states my whole perception of the Linux landscape over the last couple of years. Current distros would do well to pay attention to Wikipedia's reasons for mass migration.

Fedora and long term support

Posted Oct 20, 2008 9:15 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Wikipedia is somewhat unusual (they have highly specialized servers and basically can deploy their own specialized sauce over the general-purpose distribution of their choice).

This is not really applicable to any org with varied needs, can not afford to replace every stack it uses and must go with what their chosen distribution ships.

Fedora and long term support

Posted Oct 20, 2008 19:24 UTC (Mon) by pcampe (guest, #28223) [Link]

Read the FAQ, thank you.

It makes me wonder when they say "we need to make sure we have our RAID drivers and reasonably up-to-date LAMP and image-rerendering infrastructure software." Every RAID controller you can find in a server is supported by RHEL/SuSE and server market Ubuntu is the newcomer.

Maybe Ubuntu has a better support for poor RAID controller, the motherboard based cheap ones as it's more desktop driven, but I hope for them that they run their infrastructure on something of a better quality.

It seems to me that they have used for a long time Red Hat and Fedora, found a lot of problem in using them in a production environment, have admins with a strong Debian knowledge, and finally choose to use Ubuntu as they could more easily switch back and forth from Ubuntu LTS and Debian Testing.