Re: Updates

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 23:24, Nathan England wrote:
> 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?
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- too short of life cycle

The supported cycle is approximately 1 year. The update lifetime is only
2-3 months until after next release. For example, FC-1 has already EOL'd
and the burden is up to fedoralegacy to provide updates...not proven to
be something that you can rely upon.

- less than full testing of some of the pieces

The objective is to be 'leading edge' and not necessarily 'stable' - I
am happy with that for my desktop usage but not for a server.

see the fedora objectives:
<http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html>

The 5 year commitment of their RHEL product strikes me as much more
ideal for a server environment and those that like the Red Hat packaging
and layout can purchase RHEL with subscription updates and support or
use one of the clones which update easily enough - but no official
support beyond the mail lists.

I don't mean to dis' Fedora - I use it on my workstations.

apt-get dist-upgrade #not my ideal methodology of maintaining a
prodution server

Craig

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