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by espeed 4406 days ago
Fedora isn't really meant to be a server distro -- it's a bleeding-edge distro so it has rapid releases, a short life-cycle, and lots of new code.

As the Fedora docs say, it's "often running in uncharted innovative territory," which is great if you want the latest stuff on your desktop, but it's not what you really want in a server distro. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is derived from Fedora every few years so it's battle tested and stable, in the same way Debian is.

For servers in the Red Hat lineage, use RHEL or CentOS, esp now that Red Hat has officially joined forces with CentOS (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-ha...).

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Yep - that's why I threw the etc. in there.

And we have to use the indefinite article, "a desktop", never … your desktop.