Hey, gang...

I'm seriously considering upgrading my server to Fedora. All the distros I see, however, tout their "desktopiness." Are they all good to use as a server, or is there one in particular I should use? Or something else, for that matter? I am intrigued by the engineering "spin," and might like to install all that stuff on my server, as well...

Thanks,
Tom
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It depends what you mean by "server". Fedora is fine for a home server or your desktop. The problem with using it for a public facing service is that the code develops too quickly, and just running a yum update could take you from a 100% working box to something like httpd not starting -which would be a bad thing for a webserver.

If the packages you want aren't available in RHEL or one of the rebuilds, you can rebuild a Fedora package for RHEL.

Rob Marti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Burke, Thomas (ES)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:02 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Fedora Server?
>
> Hey, gang...
>
> I'm seriously considering upgrading my server to Fedora. All the distros I see,
> however, tout their "desktopiness." Are they all good to use as a server, or is
> there one in particular I should use? Or something else, for that matter? I
> am intrigued by the engineering "spin," and might like to install all that stuff
> on my server, as well...
>
> Thanks,
> Tom

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