Hi Michiel,
I totally agree with you, and realize my mail did come across as a defense for Fedora in the enterprise. I wouldn't know - we run Debian for the same reasons you outline below. Although Debian did shorten it's release cycle in the last few years, I seem to notice. We're still mostly on 4, a few machines have been upgraded to 5 and now they're talking about releasing 6 shortly.
Lars
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From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of Michiel Beijen
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:17 AM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] Best flavor of Linux for OTRS
Hi Lars,
First of all, of course these topics have a very high potential of
starting flames, and everyone has it's own opinions.
I'm a Fedora user myself, and I like it. I use it on my laptop. Still
I would NOT recommend it for use on a production server. This is
because only the last two versions of Fedora are supported with
security updates, and they generally release new updates about every 6
months. This means you'd have to upgrade your server OS just about
every year. This also means you can get a very different Perl version,
or Apache version, database version etc. when you do the OS upgrade.
Depending on your type of setup you usually don't want this because it
can break your setup, cause you do testing of your whole system, and
because it's just more hassle than you want.
If you deploy a server, usually it's at least for a 4-5 year period
before you decommision the machine. That's why I would always
recommend also choosing an OS that has an equal life span. In Linux'
case this would be RHEL6/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS (meaning 10.04) or
similar. This makes sure you can your server operational for a long
time without the need of performing a server upgrade because of
security issues.
Of course, if you really like to be on the bleeding edge, and you have
a business reason for that, choosing Fedora on the servers might be a
valid choice.
Just my € 0.02.
--
Mike
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Lars Jørgensen
Hi, please read
Looked at it for fun, and saw this regarding the Fedora distribution:
"Cons: Fedora's priorities tend to lean towards enterprise features, rather than desktop usability"
How can that be a bad thing for a server operating system? It seems that list is biased towards desktop use.
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