Fedora Core 5 Issues

[Simon Andrews]

Roger wrote:
> I was hosting just over 1000 domains on FC5 and with very disastrous 
> consequences so i have moved away from FC5 and another friend of mine 
> with a lot more Linux experience tried unsuccessfully to run a 
> production server on FC5.
> 
> I think for experimenting with it and using it as a personal desktop 
> machine etc. etc. it runs very well, but not when your income depends on it.

It really depends on what you're trying to do.  If you're using hardware 
which is only recently supported in the kernel (SATA for example), then 
FC5 gives you at least the option of running it (unlike older releases), 
although there may still be bugs to be ironed out since the support is 
still somewhat new.

On older hardware we've found FC to be rock solid.

> The guys at Red Hat have a lot of work to do because FC5 is a load of 
> trash, i tried to upgrade my kernel and it did not work, so i guess some 
> of the nifty that FC5 comes with are a direct trade off for stabilty, 
> the only reason i opted for FC5 was because FC3 did not have SATA 
> drivers for my server so i hastily put together a small machine with 
> 768MB memory and 40G hard  drive and i am running Qmail with MySQL 
> integration there and so far the machine has not complained(I am 
> touching wood by the way!!!).

I can only disagree.  We have 6 production servers running on FC5 
(mostly Dell PowerEdge hardware) doing a variety of tasks (webservers, 
database servers, subversion etc.) and apart from a couple of hardware 
failures we've never had a problem with them.  At least one started off 
as a FC1 machine and has had every upgrade to FC applied.  I lose about 
a day every 6 months doing the upgrades, but I get a solid, free OS with 
a very active community.

Sure, some people have problems, but in the majority of cases they'd be 
likely to have the same problems with any distribution.  People often 
seem to attribute problems from upstream with the distribution in which 
that problem manifests itself, which is a little unfair.

Simon.