RHEL 3.0 or Fedora for a 'production environment' ?

[Jesse Keating]

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On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:25, Ben Steeves wrote:
> Why not?  Many companies are already running RH7/8/9 without support.
> If it worked for them them, it will continue to do so, I should think.
> For companies with sufficient available Linux/RedHat knowledge, I don't
> see the bifurcation of the distribution to be a major issue.  

Because 7/8/9 had a much longer errata period.  7.3 is _still_ getting 
errata, and will continue to until the end of this year.  Fedora Core 
releases will only get errata for 2~3 months after the next release.  The 
life span of any given FC release is about 8~10 months.  Thats very short 
when you're talking IT.  In the past, one could count on getting errata 
for at least a year, usually longer.  To help with this lack of support, 
we've launched the Fedora Legacy project, in which the community will take 
the role in providing backported errata for FC releases once RH no longer 
provides them.  As an added bonus, we've committed to supporting RHL 7.3 
once it goes EOL, as well as RHL9.  Check the address in my sig for info.

> Basically, if you were already using Redhat in an RHEL-type manner
> (i.e., paying for support directly from Redhat), then buying RHEL will
> continue to work for you.  If you weren't -- i.e., your local Linux
> gurus were providing support for you, then Fedora should be sufficient
> for your production environment.  

Support is one thing.  You could always count on your internal guys for 
support.  But what about software backports?  Were your internal guys 
rolling their own updates and pushing them out to your production servers?  
Think about it....

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