The statement that 'Fedora is designed as a desktop OS rather than a server' has a lot of truth in it, althought it may not necessarily be true to the letter. The reason why Fedora was branched off Redhat is because of the frequent life cycle, which is not ideal for a server environment. A new release comes every 6 months and if you use it in a server environment, you probably have to upgrade every six or less months and that is not desireable, as opposed to RedHat Enterprise whose cycles are well over 2 years.
./Ok3ch

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM, melvin obiri <obirimelvin@gmail.com> wrote:

Fedora is designed as a desktop OS rather than a server.

I suppose saying that would be misleading . What designates an operating system as server or desktop depends on the service or software running. In the case of Fedora or Red Hat the user decides that ; Recalling old redhat  7,8 or 9 during install you had option to choose between desktop or server or install everything

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
There is never really much difference between the Linux flavors (its
much more what you are comfortable working with). The stability of an
linux/unix server is much more about how proper the installation,
hardening and configuration is done rather than the distro. Wikipedia
has been running fedora for sometime (though they are standardizing to
Ubuntu) and you will agree with me it has one of the most stable
systems.



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From: Arthur Buliva <abuliva@mobileplanet.co.ke>
Reply-to: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Anyone using Redhat
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:45:53 +0300

> and what is the difference of deploying fedora in place of Red Hat?

Fedora is designed as a desktop OS rather than a server. Think of it
in this context: You can use Windows XP as a web server, but wouldn't
you rather use, say, Windows 2000 Server?
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