[svlug] RedHat Linux end-of-life decisions

[David Chait]

> IMHO, Fedora appears to be an improved Red Hat.
>
> YMMV,
> Karen

I wouldn't go so far as to say it is improoved. It really depends on your
circumstances, most people prefer stability to bleeding edge tech for
production environments. I could never see myself changing the OS on a
production box once every 4 - 6 months to keep up with Fedora's release
pace. We skiped Fedora altogether and licened RHEL for our production
environment, and so far it has functioned as well or better than the RH
7.3/9 environment that it replaced. Yes, it costs money, but I am willing to
pay for the extended term of stability (measured in 4 - 5 years, not 4 - 6
months), as are most buisnesses. If money is an issue, license WS, it will
work on most server hardware just as well as ES, with the exception that RH
doesn't push down some server related packages which once could easilly do
on his or her own.

-David