[CS-FSLUG] Fedora overtakes Mandrake on Distrowatch!

[Doug Coats]

<gloat>
Fedora Rules!
</gloat>

We have used Fedora as our Server OS since it came out and have found it to
be very stable and reliable.  Even though it is a "test bed" for RH we have
found that its performance as a production server to be great.  We use it
for our firewall, routers, web server, mail server, file server, VPN on a
network of
80+ machines.

As far as the legacy project goes I believe (from what I remember reading)
the FC1 has gone to the Legacy support team.  We have two servers still
running FC1 and we still get updates for them.

I have played around with the newest - FC3 but have not installed it on any
of our production servers yet.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz]On Behalf Of David Aikema
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:38 AM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Fedora overtakes Mandrake on Distrowatch!


Given that Fedora is essentially a perpetually-beta distribution (a
testbed for RHEL), I'd expect that those running Fedora would probably
be paying more attention to a site like that.

Can anyone running Fedora comment at all on the status of the Fedora
legacy project, which was attempting to extend the support lifetime of
particular releases beyond the 6 - 9 month support lifetime that Red
Hat was offering (or are we not yet at the stage where they've really
had opportunity to take over)?

David

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:13:32 -0600, N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
> This is the very first time ever since all that hype about Yoper that
Mandrake
> hasn't been #1 on Distrowatch's side panel. Usually Mandrake has a
> significant lead but now Fedora overtook it by just two hits! SUSE's not
far
> behind with just 390 less hits.
>
> The current top five are:
> 1       Fedora          1415
> 2       Mandrake        1413
> 3       SUSE            1103
> 4       MEPIS             998
> 5       Debian            961
>
> Fedora hasn't just had a release so does this shift mean that its gaining
more
> popularity then Mandrake, or is Mandrake loosing popularity?
>
> More detailed statistics can be found here:
> http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
>
> Anyone care to comment on this?
>
> Any Fedora users care to gloat* perhaps? ;-)
>
> * not that malicious kind of gloating of course.

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