On Sat, October 20, 2018 10:22 am, Yan Li wrote: > On 10/20/18 7:42 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> I would like to hear the reasons of those who chose to use Fedora on >> their >> server. Specifically what advantages one has found compared to other >> alternatives. And also what kind of server that is. Single >> user/home/family one? Serving some department or similar (say 100 >> people, >> who may need services 24/7/365)? I know, this is just my curiosity, as I >> did make my own choice, but curiosity grossly fueled by the fact that my >> choice is grossly different. >> >> Always happy to hear different [from mine] opinions which may be based >> on >> different objectives. > > We are running about 50 development servers for the Storage Systems > Research Center in the University of California, Santa Cruz. All Fedora. > We will be updating all machines to F29 as soon as it is released. The > reason is that we want the students to have access to the latest > development toolchain, libraries, and other tools from the Linux world > in a reasonably stable fashion. Fedora is the best fit. Not bleeding > edge, but not outdated either. Our infrastructure servers, such as file > sharing, cluster management, etc., are all Fedora machines too, for > homogeneity and simplicity. > > We don't need 24/7/365 uptime, but in my memory, there has been no > downtime caused by anything in Fedora in the past decade. And we always > do in-place upgrading when a new Fedora comes out. Upgrading from one > Fedora to the next never failed us in the past decade either in my memory. > > Occasionally, one or more machines will be loaded with CentOS 7 for a > few months for running Lustre or some other CentOS/RHEL certified > software. > > This is unrelated to the campus-wise Linux clusters that are managed by > the university IT department, which maintains hundreds of CentOS > machines for the whole campus. > > I also know colleagues who maintain Fedora as servers from my other > jobs. These were for all kinds of services: email, file storage, > development, etc. Why Fedora over CentOS? I guess Fedora is more fun to > play with and is stable enough for these applications. As I said before, > in-place upgrading for Fedora is pretty reliable. And doing it once a > year (or every 6 months) to get the latest software is a good bargain > for a techie. Oh, great, I now can see the world with your eyes! And last part about servers life cycle wise doesn't sound much different from what I do using FreeBSD and jails. The only difference is maybe in how frequently I have to reboot Linux (any flavor) due to kernel or glibc security update compared to reboot of FreeBSD. Thanks a lot! Valeri > > -- > Yan Li > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++