Fedora Server?

[Marti, Robert]

It depends what you mean by "server".  Fedora is fine for a home server or your desktop.  The problem with using it for a public facing service is that the code develops too quickly, and just running a yum update could take you from a 100% working box to something like httpd not starting -which would be a bad thing for a webserver.

If the packages you want aren't available in RHEL or one of the rebuilds, you can rebuild a Fedora package for RHEL.

Rob Marti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Burke, Thomas (ES)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:02 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Fedora Server?
> 
> Hey, gang...
> 
> I'm seriously considering upgrading my server to Fedora.  All the distros I see,
> however, tout their "desktopiness."  Are they all good to use as a server, or is
> there one in particular I should use?  Or something else, for that matter?  I
> am intrigued by the engineering "spin," and might like to install all that stuff
> on my server, as well...
> 
>                 Thanks,
>                                 Tom