I think I'll move to CentOS. That sounds like a good move. :) Thanks for the feedback. I was wondering whether I can use yum directly? I'll look into it but if anybody has done in in the past and/or is aware of the relevant documentation, please let me know.
-- Peter "Excalibur" On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > It is a little puzzling that when someone asks on a fedora ML how to > > upgrade Fedora, the answer is often "upgrade to CentOS instead". > > It's common enough advice for servers, or other computers where you want > a long lifespan. Fedora needs upgrading about once a year to the next > release, or you'll not have any updates for it, leaving you with unfixed > bugs, and security problems. Alternatively, CentOS has a much longer > support cycle (several years), where you can continue to update packages > without having to upgrade the entire distribution. > > Upgrading can be quite a hassle on servers with data that needs keeping, > or converting to newer formats, or if you have equipment in a rack that > will need disassembling to change/add a drive because of boot device > restrictions. > > -- > [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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