On 2019-04-01 11:58 a.m., Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:51:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > [....] >> I think that the term "stable" here should be replaced with "buggy". >> RHEL is intensely buggy and their bugs seldom get fixed; Fedora has a >> few bugs, but they are rapidly taken care of. > > I'm confused, maybe because I've never tried RHEL. (No way I > could ever afford it.) Where do these bugs come from, and how do they get > into RHEL??
I use RHEL and CentOS quite a lot, and it's quite stable. They can have quirks, certainly, but once you get a system working the way you like, it will keep working that way for years without issue. Now if you add EPEL or other third party repos, things might change, but that's not the fault of RHEL/CentOS. I use Fedora as my daily OS and I've used it frequently to "test the waters" for what future RHEL/CentOS might be like. I've even done early port work on our code on Fedora Server, but I would never put that into production. Fedora has a life cycle of "One release + one month". So when F30 is released, F28 will got EOL one month after. With an average of about 2 releases a year, that means a system would become unsupported in a bit over a year from initial release. In the world of servers, that's exceptionally short and not sustainable. Our platform would not be supported on Fedora Server for this reason alone. It takes time to get things stable, and the 10-year life space of RHEL/CentOS is crucial for us. It's nothing for a deployed system to still be in use, basically untouched saved for regular updates, for 5+ years. I suspect that the reason OP's vendor won't support Fedora is similar. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
