Wanna give me a hand debunking this?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 21:29:12 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>>>> Fedora's stated lifetime policy and rate of technical advancement
>>>> has to be weighted against other distribution choices in the Fedora
>>>> derived ecosystem which move more slowly.  The release cycle and
>>>> updating policy of the Fedora distribution are not necessarily the
>>>> most attractive elements for use in production systems.
>>> Or anything but disposable test boxes?
>>
>> Like various parts of the build infrastructure that builds the various
>> Fedora and EPEL packages?  I don't consider those to be disposable
>> test boxes, but I really don't know what your criteria are.
> 
> Does more than 80% of wikipedia servers count?
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers

That's impressive, but there is a lack of 'yum update' activity noted in
https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log

Are they horribly out of date or just not mentioning the normal churn of 
fedora?

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   Les Mikesell
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