Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Michael L Torrie wrote: >> You may want to convert the servers to RHEL5 or CentOS5. Going from FC5 >> is trivial and can even be done without taking anything down or >> off-line. FC5 will be without updates very soon here. Now that CentOS >> and RHEL are quite mature and usable, I cannot recommend FC (or the >> upcoming Fedora) for any server duty, because of their very short >> lifespans. > > > I thought Fedora Core updates were done by the community, not by Redhat. > Is the community no longer going to provide yum updates for FC5? > > Can RHEL5 be downloaded free? Can you do yum updates free? Or does the > whole RHEL5 world revolve around a required subscription?
Fedora updates are done by the community, but FC5 is soon be to at end-of-life based on the fast release cycle that Fedora uses. I think Michael is suggesting something a little less bleeding-edge for your server--something that doesn't have a new version every 6 months. RHEL5 is subscription based only from my understanding but downloading CentOS 5 is going to pretty much give you RHEL 5, without the subscription. On a non-FC/RHEL/CentOS note: I run my servers on Ubuntu, but use the LTS (Long Term Support) release 6.06.1 as it is still supported for some time, despite also having other interim releases (currently 7.04).
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