[CLUG] RE: Fedora Core 1 Released

[adam beecher]

First of all, thanks to everyone that (eventually!:) offered to burn it 
for me, however I got it in the meantime -- thanks Fergal.

Mark, I don't know what Red Hat say about it but I gotta say it's pretty 
damn good. I installed it on Tuesday evening and it took a while to get 
it set up the way I like, but I've been running it ever since which is 
unprecedented for me -- I normally boot back into Windows "to check 
something" and never come back. Running KDE with Firebird and 
Thunderbird and XMMS playing Shoutcast and I'm happy as the proverbial 
pig in the proverbial messy stuff.

That being said, I doubt I'll be staying with Red Hat on the server 
side. I manage five servers running Red Hat - one running 7.2 and four 
with 7.3 - and they'll all EOL at the end of the year and I'll be well 
shtuck. Two of them I can upgrade to Enterprise if necessary, but 
there's no clear upgrade path for my own remotely hosted machines. Red 
Hat have left the dedicated hosting companies to pick up the pieces.

EV1Servers (formerly Rackshack) is an extreme example: They have 
something like 15,000 boxes in their main facility running Red Hat and 
they're still trying to figure out what to do with them. I don't know 
what their final decision will be, but I'm hoping a conversion to Debian 
will be offered. I can't see the same thing happening with that.

adam



Mark Twomey wrote:
> Donncha wrote:
> 
>>I downloaded it before I went to Madrid (a week ago!), but I forgot to
> 
> bring
> 
>>CDs in with me to work. I want to install it at home for the weekend, so
> 
> give
> 
>>me a ring on Saturday probably if you still want it.
> 
> 
> Might I ask why?
> Even RedHat don't class it as production quality and they've shipped some
> crap in their time.
> What happened to the days of running "stable" systems until an act of god,
> raft of exploits, new hardware or sheer age forced a change?
> 
> Mark.
>