Re: LWN article about us

["Jason Lim" <maillist jasonlim com>]

Actually, if you're talking about the RedHat Linux distros, the last
"stable" one was Redhat Linux 9. All the FC ones are being released way
too fast and frequently to be used on a stable server.

Lets look at it this way... if you are on a desktop and using Fedora, just
keep upgrading to the next release when it comes out. They were made to be
frequently upgraded. A bit of upgrade time is acceptable on a
desktop/workstation, but it isn't acceptable on a server. FC was never
supposed to have a long lifespan for each release.

The last version of RedHat Linux that would have been used on servers most
commonly is RH9. We still have a lot of RH9 servers running, while 7.x and
8 has been moved to RH9 as well.

Anyway, hope that shows support for RH9!!!



> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:01:57AM +0200, Steve Stavropoulos wrote:
> >  RedHat 7.3 is the only "real" server distro fedoralegacy currently
> > supports. All others are meant to be more desktop machines than 7.3.
I'd
> > say to drop fedora 1 if things are tight in resources. You don't
really
> > need so much time to upgrade your personal desktop and if you have
fedora
> > 1 as a server then you must _really_ know what you 're doing and you
> > should be alright left alone :>
>
> FC1 is a great server distro. I'm using it many places. I would have
> thought you needed more know-how to stay with 7.3.
>
> I really value and appreciate the efforts of fedora-legacy to keep FC1
> secure. It will be at least another year for me before I can drop FC1
> and move on to 2.6 kernels.
>
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