On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:37 AM Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > The main issue against using Fedora in production environments is the short lifecycle. Forcing an upgrade, and all the associated testing, auditing, etc. of the base version every year or so is not tenable for most organizations. -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>