On 30 Jan 2008, at 23:58, John Summerfield wrote:

> Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
>> Maybe fedora is the way to go for desktops?
>
>
> It might be. Fedora has newer technology; if you're developing  
> software to deploy to next RHEL, that makes sense.
>
> OTOH it's higher maintenance. It will fail more often - new  
> technology has its risks, you need to upgrade more often to remain  
> on supported releases and your users will spend more time learning  
> their new desktops.

Yes, we're moving in the other direction because of the need to  
upgrade Fedora so often.  By the time we've ported our system  
configuration software to a newer Fedora release and upgraded a  
thousand plus machines to it, a Fedora release has a lot less than a  
year left before it's out of maintenance.  This puts us in some  
difficulty as we only have time for an annual OS upgrade.  We've used  
Fedora for several years but we're now moving to Scientific Linux to  
get the extra support period.

	-- Chris.

Computing Officer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.