On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 23:54, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you aren't buying support from the OS distributor and/or the application > developer (and the app developer providing the support will only support the > enterprise releases) then it makes little sense to use the "enterprise" > variant. > > If you have to stay up on patches then the enterprise OSes might have some > value if you were not committed to keeping fedora on a version still getting > updates. > > If you aren't paying for support and/or you are providing all of the support > internally, then you might as well be on one of the Fedora like leading edge > distributions with all the new features.
I do not pay for support most of the time. I can resolve most issues using Google search. If Google search cannot help me, I will ask questions in the mailing lists and community forums. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:27 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:56 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming >> <tdtemc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Subject: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux? >> > >> > Good day from Singapore, >> > >> > I have just come across this article. >> > >> > Article: Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" >> > As Default Compiler Flag >> > Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Rejects-No-Omit-FP >> > >> > [QUOTE] >> > >> > As a change proposal first initiated by Meta/Facebook developers, they >> > wanted -fno-omit-frame-pointer and -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer to be >> > added to the default C/C++ compilation flags. >> > >> > ...snipped... >> > >> > Meta engineers believe that any performance cost is small and worth it >> > while SUSE engineers previously cited around possible 5~10% >> > regressions. >> > >> > [/QUOTE] >> > >> > From the above quotes, I thought that Meta/Facebook servers are using >> > Fedora Linux, or at least Linux servers. >> > >> > Anyone can confirm? >> >> I don't have first hand knowledge of Meta, but I have a fair amount of >> enterprise experience. A large enterprise will have a large number of >> technology stacks. It will look like the wild, wild west. They will >> likely allow Fedora, in addition to other distros like Alpine, Debian, >> the BSDs and Ubuntu. And they will also allow a heap of developmental >> languages. >> >> I often recommend Fedora Server anytime I see folks using RHEL or >> CentOS. I don't understand why organizations run that antique software >> that is no longer in development. Fedora provides modern software and >> is in active development with continuous bug fixes. >> >> The "in active development" part is important. Old versions of >> software and kernels just accumulate more unfixed bugs over time. Most >> developers don't spend time on old versions of software, so the known >> bugs don't get fixed. Adversaries love that property of old software. >> https://thenewstack.io/design-system-can-update-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-security/ >> . >> >> I eat my own dog food. I run Fedora Servers at my house. >> >> Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
