Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:48:34 +0300
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.
I contradict this. to a newbies, they may all be the same one way or
another. If you are an IT power user(who needs to install a few apps,
servers etc), Mandriva Linux is a NO GO ZONE.
I think that in aiming to make it easy to use, they end up making it
hard to configure what comes outside the Mandriva DVD.
I once tried to move from Basic Mandriva usage to power usage, and it
gave me hell. I am now on Fedora, and even the comp is smiling.
I suggest that suse & Fedora are good places to begin. Mandriva is still
a good distro for an End User.
2009/6/23 Okechukwu <
okechukwu@gmail.com>
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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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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