Fedora Makes a Terrible Server?

[Bradley Pursley]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/02/11/fedora-makes-a-terrible-server/
>
> What is your experience ?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
My main concern / problem is that it doesn't seem like the updates are 
very well tested thereby *CAUSING* crashes, lockups, etc.  Until this 
lack of concern is fixed, I would not recommend Fedora for servers.  
Something that might help is by allowing updates to be undone 
automatically if there is a problem and then to "lock out" that update 
from being applied again until the next generation of that update comes 
out. 

Another problem I've noticed is that when new software is being 
installed, there are no tests done to verify that it installed and is 
working correctly, which has been a big problem on my system.  I've had 
to manually "fix" quite a number of the installs and sometimes when it 
updates the software, it undoes my fixes and I have to re-apply the fix 
again, which is highly aggravating.  Updates should not automatically 
mess with the configuration files, especially if they've been manually 
changed, unless it prompts the system user and gives you the option of 
whether you want the updated file or just want to adjust the current 
one.  For programming, this would be easy to implement without changing 
packaging requirements (don't overwrite older non-executable files, just 
rename them or move them to a "backup" location and advise user of the 
change).

Just my ten cents worth.

Bradley