[mirror-admin] Run Fedora on Fedora?

[Kevin Bowling]

On 7/22/2009 3:15 AM, J.H. wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:10:18PM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
>>> When we do start to run the rsync servers, they will be on RHEL5,
>>> where we will have a more recent rsync version (2.6.8 right now)
>>> available.
>>
>> Why not use Fedora? Using anything else than Fedora is
>> countermarketing :)
>>
>> Imagine Debian running its master servers on Ubuntu.
>
> I know I already teased the Fedora Admins about this, but I know I've 
> been brave enough to run Fedora out the front line :-)
>
> And everyone said I was crazy!  Well ok, they were probably right ;-)
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Kernel.org has been running smoothly for my Fedora rsync the past two days.

Hmm, I use Fedora [10,11] for all my front and back end systems.  Not so 
crazy as long as you have the time to test updates and backups 
available.  I use Gentoo on web boxes because a rolling release cycle is 
much easier than the 6-month or 2 year, especially when you need certain 
software versions and don't want to be slapped with all the updates at once.

RHEL 5.3 on VMs for testing and customer environment.  Using RHEL5 is a 
pain coming from recent Fedora releases.  I am eagerly awaiting RHEL6 
for much needed kernel, compiler, python, rsync, etc updates.

Regards,
Kevin

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