On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:52 -0700, Jerry Franz wrote:
On 06/14/2011 08:41 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah, but some people appear to think (or at least that was what I got from the post of the guy I was replying to) that fedora is good enough
for
production.
*blink*
Absolutely not. I was talking about Ubuntu Server LTS. I don't use Fedora for *anything*. I gave up on it back around FC5.
Ubuntu Server LTS is *very* suitable for production use.
Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. In fact, it's sort of refreshing to set up a new server that isn't overloaded with bloat from the very start. Setting up a new VMWare image w/ Ubuntu Server takes at most 10 minutes whereas doing the same w/ CentOS 5 takes almost an hour (easier just to clone my base install copy kept for just that purpose).
I actually use Fedora for my Desktop. It dual boots to Ubuntu but I don't often use it. The only reason that I ever saw people using Fedora for production was because the RHEL/CentOS software packages were so completely out-of-date.
Your mail to the cyrus-imapd list today shows that not all software on RHEL/CentOS is "so completely out-of-date" compared to Ubuntu server LTS (and we are talking about CentOS 5!). It really depends what you need, sometimes RHEL/CentOS is ancient, sometimes it's Ubuntu.
Simon