arstechnica.com— Fedora 8 has been installed over 54,000 times since its release last week according to statistics from Red Hat.
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"correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Fedora only supports current, and 2 back for updates."Actually, Fedora N-2 is only supported for one month after the release of Fedora N, which means that the supported period for each release is 13 months.
Now I'm not a huge user, but I do own a small web hosting outfit with ~50 cPanel servers, and personally I find Fedora much better suited for my needs and the needs of my customers than CentOS/RHELSure I have to upgrade the OS more often, but I would hardly call Fedora unstable. I would say in my experience it is just as stable for my applications as CentOS/RHEL. I think the only real benefit to CentOS/RHEL is perceived stability, but I can add more packages easily with Fedora. I did notice xfs is a selectable filesystem now in the default install, that is very welcome, I tend to enjoy reiserfs for the MySQL data drive/partition, but once cPanel announces support of a more current Fedora than Fedora 6 I will definatly be giving xfs a spin for MySQL.I finally did ditch M$FT with this latest release of Fedora on my desktop, and now that I've gotten comfortable with SageTV in Fedora, I'll be ditching Gentoo as well. Sure everyone is going to be comfortable with a particular distro, Fedora happens to be my comfort zone, but to claim RHEL is more stable than Fedora is just untrue.
init100Nov 13, 2007
"correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Fedora only supports current, and 2 back for updates."Actually, Fedora N-2 is only supported for one month after the release of Fedora N, which means that the supported period for each release is 13 months.
grg183Nov 13, 2007
wow!!, the stupidity of some comments on digg is actually amusing !
computerfreedomNov 14, 2007
oh i downloaded the LiveCD not gonna install it though, i am happy with fedora
mitgibNov 17, 2007
Now I'm not a huge user, but I do own a small web hosting outfit with ~50 cPanel servers, and personally I find Fedora much better suited for my needs and the needs of my customers than CentOS/RHELSure I have to upgrade the OS more often, but I would hardly call Fedora unstable. I would say in my experience it is just as stable for my applications as CentOS/RHEL. I think the only real benefit to CentOS/RHEL is perceived stability, but I can add more packages easily with Fedora. I did notice xfs is a selectable filesystem now in the default install, that is very welcome, I tend to enjoy reiserfs for the MySQL data drive/partition, but once cPanel announces support of a more current Fedora than Fedora 6 I will definatly be giving xfs a spin for MySQL.I finally did ditch M$FT with this latest release of Fedora on my desktop, and now that I've gotten comfortable with SageTV in Fedora, I'll be ditching Gentoo as well. Sure everyone is going to be comfortable with a particular distro, Fedora happens to be my comfort zone, but to claim RHEL is more stable than Fedora is just untrue.