[asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora?

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I cannot think of a single reason to use Fedora for a production anything
when there are alternatives like CentOS.  Fedora is bleeding edge stuff and
constantly changing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew J. Roth [mailto:mroth at imminc.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:39 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora?

love U.all wrote:
> i wanna build a production Asterisk box ,will RedHat Linux Enterprise 
> Server be more stable than Fedora core Linux  or it makes no 
> significant difference
I started out running Fedora, but I have migrated away from it for a few 
reasons.  Fedora has a very short life cycle and since the demise of the 
legacy project there is no support for releases that are over a year 
old.  It is also considered a bleeding-edge distribution and is a 
testing ground for new applications and features.  As such, it has 
frequent updates (including the kernel) that aren't guaranteed not to 
break your system.

If stability and long-term support are your goals, I recommend taking a 
look at CentOS <http://www.centos.org/>.  It is a binary-compatible 
clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that's free and has a very long 
support period.  It's basically RHEL without the paid support contract.  
My migration to CentOS was painless, because the file system and 
configuration are practically identical to those of Fedora.

Regards,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer