On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:00:24AM -0700, James Szinger wrote:
Using Fedora on production servers is like climbing without a rope.
It's possible. I've even seen some folks do it.
Since the release of CentOS 8, I have been moving my stuff over to Fedora. The combination of modularity and missing -devel packages make developing and building software on EL8 impractical. As a result, EL8 is poor choice for deploying custom software.
While I don't use Fedora as a production server, I will say that ever since Adam Williamson joined them, the QA has been quite good. I used to worry about an update breaking things. Now I use it as my go to Linux on laptops, and have successfully upgraded, using their instructions for CLI updates, with no problems.
I do use openbox and dwm (which I install from source) rather than Gnome, which might have something to do with my painless updates.
Not to say it's a good server OS (though not saying it isn't, I don't have enough knowledge of it in that situation to say), but it's not the always on the edge of breaking that it used to be.