Yeah, you CAN do it (and there are people who try it often), but there are always a few glitches with the upgrade-in-place tools for RHEL and SLES. I've got Debian machines that have gone through repeated major release updates with 100% reliability. You can't beat:
1) Add new repository into /etc/apt/apt.sources 2) apt-get update 3) apt-get dist-upgrade And it Just Works. No muss, no fuss, no hassle. Fire and walk away. I also think apt does a better job of not clobbering customizations if there's already a file in place. Not all RPMs play nice with that. Ubuntu Server I can easily see being interesting; it's a little less conservative than the "enterprise" releases in terms of being more up to date, but not as freewheeling as Fedora on Intel's "let's release a new kernel every 11.5322555 minutes because we can" philosophy. Nice golden mean. Ubuntu also has the name recognition that plain Jane Debian does not. Fortunately, we don't care about desktops on Z, so we don't have to have the Unity vs GNOME argument here. Thank goodness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
