On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 19:11 +0100, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
>> Tim Alberts wrote on Tuesday 30 October 2007:
>>
>>> It's certainly not selfish if you want run production servers...it just
>>> prompts the question (yet again), 'is Fedora production quality or just
>>> beta test for Redhat?'
>> You question implies there are only those two options available, which
>> might not be true. In this case your question would be inane.
>>
>> I would neither assume Fedora being RedHat's *beta* playing ground nor
>> would I use it for a server, which I *must* rely on.
>> I use it as my workstation OS and for my home server - I think that was
>> the goal of Fedora and it does it job fair enough.
>
> Actually, Fedora _is_ the beta stuff for RHEL. There is no RHEL beta
> stuff...it's either RHEL or it's Fedora. Example: RHEL5 is essentially
> Fedora Core 6.
>
> Of course, I look more at it as a "technology preview" rather than beta,
> but I'm weird.
There is in fact a 6 month or so long beta process for RHEL for every
major release and a smaller beta period for minor releases. A recent
update for example,
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6512580671.html
I didn't realize that. Ok, I stand (sit) corrected.
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