From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, JC wrote:
>
> > 1.) What would you suggest migrating to?
>
> For a few weeks now I've been happily using CentOS 3.1 (www.centos.org),
> which is a rebuild from source of RedHat Enterprise Linux. They've added
> a tool called "yum" which can be used instead of up2date, and they lag
> only a few days behind RedHat in releasing the latest bug/security fixed
> packages. I'll be sending them a "donation" if all continues well.
>
> The big caveat is that the RHEL installer doesn't support an "upgrade"
> install, so you need to start from a fresh file system and then copy or
> restore from a backup all of your local changes, such as user accounts.
> I was installing onto a new disk so that wasn't a problem for me.
>
> Also, keep your up-to-date RH9 .rpm files handy, because RHEL dropped a
> lot of "older" software like FVWM and xv. (And not very cleanly, either,
> e.g., the GNOME desktop switcher still offers you FVWM even though it
> isn't on the system.) The RH9 RPMs (and most Fedora RMPs, too, unless
> they depend on the bleeding-edge kernel) install cleanly on CentOS.
>
> Another RHEL alternative is WhiteBox Linux (www.whiteboxlinux.org). You
> probably do NOT want to go to www dot whitebox dot org by mistake.
Why not bite the bullet and go on over to Mandrake. That's more and more
looking like the direction I plan to take. It looks like a reasonable
compromise between perpetually beta testing with Fedora and running a
perpetual antique like RHEL that seems to be getting increasingly
sloppy and arbitrary.
{^_^}
