I know the sense of many folks using Fedora is that it isn't appropriate for production systems -- but despite this, I've used it in production servers since FC1, and I'm not displeased with the results.
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
-Scott
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Scott Doty scott@ponzo.net wrote:
I know the sense of many folks using Fedora is that it isn't appropriate for production systems -- but despite this, I've used it in production servers since FC1, and I'm not displeased with the results.
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
I recently shut down, but I ran a small business that way for a few years.
-J
-Scott
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On 02/10/2012 07:07 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
I know the sense of many folks using Fedora is that it isn't appropriate for production systems -- but despite this, I've used it in production servers since FC1, and I'm not displeased with the results.
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
I've run it on production servers with no problems et all ( minimal install + required service(s) ) through 13months then done fresh minimal installs and migrated the services over too that. ( Never upgraded those servers )
Personally I think Fedora is in a unique position to act as the free alternative LTS to RHEL that users demand for since RHEL is downstream to us.
We would not for example be bit by any future RHEL business decision like Centos and other RHEL clones were.
People just need to sit down,discuss and come up with a proposal on how Fedora LTS should be and present that proposal to the community for feedback and maybe contact the "clones" to see if they would not rather participate in a such effort then chasing RHEL...
JBG
On 02/10/2012 08:35 PM, Jimmy Dorff wrote:
On 02/10/2012 02:07 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
We did until 15. Systemd was too much change for us at that time. I'm testing with 16 now, but there are many installs bugs in F16 that is making automated deployment difficult.
What install bugs and have you reported them?
Administrators might want to have a look at this http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackagePresets ( think myserver.preset )
JBG
On 02/10/2012 04:10 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
What install bugs and have you reported them?
Yes, they are all on the Common F16 bugs. The GPT boot problem was difficult because we had used KVM VMs for testing (where it worked) and the first hardware install just happened to be on a system that supported GPT. Then the role out started to more systems and basically none of them supported GPT boot.
Also, for servers the inability to have /boot on software RAID and the "Cannot install over an existing RAID configuration" are difficult.
-Jimmy
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
We use Fedora and have used it for years in Production and test environments. But, we analyzed Fedora 16 and have decided NOT to use Fedora 16! It's been a good run though. We'll stick with an RPM-based system but we have not decided which one yet (maybe we'll just skip FC16). Mike
On 2/10/2012 8:07 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
I know the sense of many folks using Fedora is that it isn't appropriate for production systems -- but despite this, I've used it in production servers since FC1, and I'm not displeased with the results.
Does anyone else use Fedora on production servers?
(I speak for myself and my personal servers, despite my @redhat.com email address ;))
No, I don´t run Fedora. The lifetime of a major release is too short compared to the time I am willing to invest in maintenance and upgrades.
I use a combination of Centos and Debian stable releases (tho I am considering to go 100% Centos).
A Fedora LTS solution (already suggested in this thread) is something i would evaluate.
Fabio
Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
A Fedora LTS solution (already suggested in this thread) is something i would evaluate.
BTW, whether does somebody something, which would be named "Fedora 14 Legacy"?
I hear Linus still sits on F14 (due to impression by some innovations in F15+). Maybe some other people too? It would be a good base for LTS system (until the innovations, mentioned above, become production-wide stable). I hope some people already gone would come back then...
Just thoughts.
Regards, Dmitry Butskoy http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
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