Re: Production Version of Fedora?

Wednesday, 29 October 2003

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:14, Elliot Lee wrote:
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 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Bill Morris wrote:

 >   Is there a version of Fedora that can be installed on
 > a production web server or is it all considered beta?
 > 
 >   Will there be stable production releases in the future?

 As I understand it (*), Fedora Core's main target is developers and
 enthusiasts, not 'must-be-super-stable' production deployments.

 In other words, the goal is to develop amazing & cool new software, not to
 make it polished for deployment. That's something for other projects or
 products to take care of. 
I don't think Fedora will not be polished enough for deployment -- it
will most likely be other things that will keep "the enterprise" from
using it:

- no support
- no guarantees (e.g. ABI-wise)
- short life cycle (though Fedora Legacy might weaken this point)

I for myself expect (not in the sense of demanding it -- except from
myself -- but rather thinking it will happen this way) Fedora to be very
polished, after all it's the developers' collective reputation that's on
stake ;-).

Nils
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