On Friday 08 October 2004 08:41, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:24, George Gambill wrote:
> > I have a RH 8.0 system that used to be updated via Red Hat.
> >
> > What options exist to continue updating this not that RH no longer offers
> > that service?
>
> ----
> Depends upon what you use it for.
>
> Workstation - want very up to date software? Use Fedora (FC-3 about to
> be released). Upgrade from 8.0 is indeed possible
>
> Server - I wouldn't use Fedora for this purpose, I would use RHEL or one
> of the clones. RHEL costs money, the clones are free. Clones are things
> like whitebox <www.whiteboxlinux.org> taolinux <http://taolinux.org/> or
> many others - google it -
> <http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=RHEL+clone&btnG=Google+Se
>arch>


I'm just getting into Fedora, so I'm curious why you wouldn't use it for a 
server?





>
> If you upgrade 8.0 to an RHEL product - you must append 'upgradeany' to
> the boot command so that it upgrades the existing installation.
>
> Craig
>
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