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Fedora and long term supportFedora and long term supportPosted Oct 19, 2008 20:53 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Fedora and long term support by sbergman27 Parent article: Fedora and long term support
> "Well, it's called "Unstable" for a reason! You should have used stable if you wanted stable! Doofus!"
At work I have friends that use Fedora, just because that is what they want to use. The amount of times that he has a non-working box (ie: something he depends on is broken) after a upgrade with Fedora is considerably more often then what I have to deal with on any of my machines.
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Fedora and long term support Posted Oct 19, 2008 21:38 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
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At work I have friends that use Fedora, just because that is what they want to use. The amount of times that he has... """
Friend or friends? You are not clear on that point. Yes, Fedora breaks a lot. RHEL and CentOS are substantially more reliable. The Fedora guys do play something of a shell game. Nominally, Fedora is Red Hat's alpha, or beta, or whatever you want to call it. Fedora fans will try to trick you into thinking that Fedora is production ready. After all, they are not the ones who have to deal with the problems.
In general, I prefer CentOS. But if my life depended upon OS reliability, and I could only choose between Debian and Fedora... I'd choose Debian. Without the constraints, I'd choose CentOS.
Fedora and long term support Posted Oct 20, 2008 14:46 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]
> ....The amount of times that he has a non-working box (ie: something he depends on is broken) after a upgrade with Fedora is considerably more...
Are you referring to upgrades from Fedora X to Fedora X+1 here, or are you referring to the nightly-ish "download and apply the latest set of updated packages to Fedora X"
From my experience, the latter breaking things is quite rare, usually due to an upstream bug, while the former is more common, but at the same time, is to be expected.
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