F8 General Availability planned 31 October 2007

aus-city · Unread post by **aus-city** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:09 am

Fedora

F8 General Availability planned 31 October 2007

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:00 am

Fedora is a nice distro, but its short lifecycle (F7 was released only last week!) makes it just a bit unpractical to use on production servers.

Unread post by **scott** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:22 am

I'll definitely be able to support F8 on that schedule. While I personally dont recommend using fedora's for hosting environments, they are the upstream for my archive, so a lot of the advancements that they are making do work their way into ART.

They also make fantastic desktops, and some of the best community building tools Ive worked with so far.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:05 am

I'll be upgrading my Fedora install to Fedora 7 today. Always fun to play with Fedora on my workstation.

aus-city · Unread post by **aus-city** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:01 am

I do run plesk and fc6 on a production server, never had a problem. All my other workstation and network servers are now F7 I did an update with the DVD.

The reason F8 is way closer than the 10 to 12 month shedule, is they missed a lot of features promised for F7.

So this will be a faster than normal update. Also planned are a new desktop and the latest gnome.
i have got F7 on 4 other machines and could not be happier.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:27 am

I'm not saying Fedora will give you problems. It's just that when you're running hosting servers with Plesk (a common case around here), you'll don't want to upgrade your OS every year. I like keeping them running for multiple years without upgrading the OS and distro's like CentOS let you do that.

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:09 am

Oh yeah Im with you too, as I said I use Fedora as the upstream for ART more often than not. I'm just amazingly, mind numbingly lazy, I dont want to have to rebuild any of my own servers for at least 5 years.