Samba 3 server on Fedora?

[desmo]

Hi list, first posting.
Just a quick question for the server section. I'm now on my way to build a Samba server (3.0.2a) to act like a fileserver in a windows 2000 ads environment. I've been testing Samba on Red Hat 9, Slackware 9.1 and Fedora and it works just fine on every one (I'm going to test Slackware 9.1 with updated kernel 2.6.4 in the next days for acl support). Red Hat support is going to end soon, and Slackware is working fine but not really easy to solve problems googling (there are much more people using Red Hat). Fedora is the other choice, but since it's a young product, is it stable enough? And is it going to have a good support in the future?
So, here's my question, would you put all your company's last five years work on a Fedora server?
Of course I'm using RAID and I'm going to backup, but still, would you do it?

Thanks for your appreciated opinions

Simone

[Ug]

Fedora isn't a young product. It is in effect RH10. Its very stable - as its not in beta unless you get one of the betas of FC2. It's certainly going to have good support from the community too far into the forseeable future.

And the answer to your question is yes, i would put my business on FC. But I would probably put it onto Enterprise Red Hat when it is released at the end of the year.

[Jman]

Much of Redhat 9 is applicable to Fedora. It's mostly upgrades with a different update system and more community participation. So most things that worked on Redhat 9 should work on Fedora, including packages built on RH9.

[Jeffa]

Fedora is stable...

I'm also suprised when I start seeing very large companies 404 http errors ( Fedora )
That suprises me, but then again it does mean it's trusted.

-Jeffa

[Bana]

You might want to check out http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ as it is a project to basically make a free enterprise linux from RHEL. It also should work with the rpm update support from Redhat for RHEL up until 2008 or so. It looks like a neat alternative, to quote exactly:What is the goal for White Box Linux?

To provide an unencumbered RPM based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their Errata srpms. Being based off of RHEL3 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until Oct 2008 since RHEL promises Errata availability for five years from date of initial release and RHEL3 shipped in Oct 2003.

Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL.

[desmo]

Thank you all very much.

Simone

[desmo]

Hi, I finally decided to move all from Slackware 9.1 to Fedora. Mainly cause it's much easier to get support, and also cause I could work out Samba3-ADS-ACL with just a couple days pain.
One question more for the experts:
would you use kernel 2.4 or 2.6?
I actually compiled 2.6.4 from source, and it looks just fine. Is it stable enough to be used in production server?

As always, any suggestion is really appreciated, thanks

Simone