On 4/1/19 8:58 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:51:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: [....]
I think that the term "stable" here should be replaced with "buggy". RHEL is intensely buggy and their bugs seldom get fixed; Fedora has a few bugs, but they are rapidly taken care of.
I'm confused, maybe because I've never tried RHEL. (No way I could ever afford it.) Where do these bugs come from, and how do they get into RHEL??
You can run it for free by running a clone, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.
The bugs basically come from RHEL's habit of taking a defunct, unsupported version of Fedora, bugs and all and freezing it. They will fix security bugs that embarrass them, but that is basically it. The idea is to have a predicable platform that has minimal enhancement so as to not break software.
This all sounds good, but software always has thing to improve and bugs to fix. The developers of software (upstream, etc.) can't help you as RHEL is just to stinkin' out of date.
So if you are happy with what you got, great. Don't improve anything or fix any bugs in your stuff, or your are dead meat.
If you are a large enough company to have your own staff of developers that can SPECIFICALLY develop for RHEL and you control over all your critical software, it is not much of any issue.
For the rest of us, Fedora is a shining example of Kaisen at work (Kaisen is Dr. Demming's phrase for "Constant Improvement").
When I first started using Fedora a year and a half ago, I literally giggled at every thing that started working correctly. And Fedora fixed every single think I found wrong in a matter of weeks, not decades (literally), with the exception that I still can't read my wife's Android tablet (I could on RHEL).
I still get excited ever time Fedora boots up. I adore Fedora.
RHEL has its place, but not in a dynamic environment. It is great for appliances that never change. But yo can do that with any OS by turning off the updates. (Windows 10 users can attest to that!)