Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Posted May 20, 2012 1:07 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29 by carlm
Parent article: Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

the key concept I was really disagreeing with is the concept that if you are running a datacenter you are not professional unless you use RHEL

Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Posted May 21, 2012 12:03 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (3 responses)

> the key concept I was really disagreeing with is the concept that if you are running a datacenter you are not professional unless you use RHEL

Who claimed that?

Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Posted May 21, 2012 14:51 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link] (2 responses)

Trust me, RHEL is considered the gold standard Linux distribution in the enterprise

So said "carlm".

RHEL, following the long tradition of Red Hat support, is pretty good for environments where platform stability and reliability are required, but that's not 100% of "the enterprise" by any means, and it's probably not 100% of the datacentre, either. I agree with those who feel that RHEL might be shoved into places it doesn't belong: that's where it becomes the "fool's gold standard".

Actually, the "fool's gold standard" is probably Fedora when it is chosen solely on the dubious basis that some RHEL systems may be targeted by some development effort or other at some point in the uncertain future, and when the competition would provide a better experience for people to actually get their jobs done.

Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Posted May 24, 2012 5:57 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

> So said "carlm".

I think what was quoted is not the same as claiming people that used something else as unprofessional.

Redhat certainly is very popular and in many ways it is a defacto standard that other 'enterprisy' distributions tries to emulate closely. Systems like Suse and Unbreakable Linux. This is done for application compatibility, of course. I don't know if this translates to a 'gold standard', but I don't think he meant that somebody using other things is inherently unprofessional.

Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Posted May 26, 2012 15:43 UTC (Sat) by carlm (guest, #84710) [Link]

That was a misrepresentation of my position, also known as a straw man ;-)