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People do use Fedora. In particular, it serves as a great place to try out new features prior to them hitting RHEL, and is widely used as a development platfor
by mpdehaan2 11y ago
People do use Fedora. In particular, it serves as a great place to try out new features prior to them hitting RHEL, and is widely used as a development platform.
It has a very fast release cycle, however, so it's not always something you want to deploy in production if you still want security updates (fine if you can easily replace your cloud instances though) -- though there are QUITE a many folks running some impressive Fedora deployments in production, including renderfarms and chip design clusters.
- craigching 11y agoI use Fedora, as you mentioned, as a development platform. I develop software that manages, among other things, IBM MQ which technically runs on RHEL, but also runs on Fedora for development. Why use Fedora and not RHEL then? Because Fedora has the latest emacs, git, etc. which makes it a much nicer development platform. If I had to actually develop on RHEL I'd probably gouge my eyes out due to older versions of the tools I use. For a long time, emacs in particular was really, really old. I think it's better now, but I still like Fedora.