Judging from recent articles ( https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Fedup-Being-Replaced), I wouldn't trust FedUP for a couple more releases.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2015 03:39 PM, Allen wrote: > > On Monday, July 06, 2015 11:18:42 AM japuzzo wrote: > >> If you want to be a Linux pro you need to know RHEL 7.x and beyond. > >> You can get a free/open version of RHEL via CentOS ( There latest > release is > >> binary compatible with RHEL 7.1 ), I suggest installing it in a virtual > >> machine. Then get ALL RHEL 7 docs here => > >> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/in > >> dex.html > > These docs are good to know about. Thanks for posting this Joe. :) > > >> They are available a html but also in offline versions of pdf and > >> epub ( for light reading on your tablet ) The good news is that these > doc > >> are the real thing, not some watered down dummy guide. If you learn from > >> these docs then you can pass exams and interview questions. > >> > >> > > > > Another free/open version of the *future* RHEL, i.e. RHEL as it will be > in > > five years is Fedora. Fedora is community-based and is largely > independent of > > Red Hat but it does serve as a testbed for future RHEL releases. > > Fedoraproject also provides a comprehensive set of documentation. > > > Fedora releases are only supported for 1 year, so I don't personally > consider Fedora as a good option for servers, even though some places > offer it. Whereas RHEL and CentOS releases are supported for 10 years, > Debian is now supporting its stable releases for 5 years, Ubuntu Desktop > LTS releases for 3 years and Ubuntu Server LTS releases for 5 years, and > so on. > > Where this all comes to a head for me is a distribution that supports > upgrade-in-place. RHEL and CentOS don't officially support this, though > there are instructions available to do so "at your own risk". Debian > officially supports upgrade-in-place, which is what attracted me to it > in the first place. I've read that Fedora now supports this via their > new "FedUP" utility, but I haven't actually tried that to see how it > works; wondering if you've tried it perhaps, Allen. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Jul 8 - Mad Science Fair V @ Lourdes > Aug 5 - Minimal Openstack @ Lourdes > Sep 2 - Let'S Go Phishing >
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