Re: Best server distro...?

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Matt Alexander wrote:

> We primarily use CentOS and Whitebox for our dev/test boxes. We're a
> large Oracle shop and the production servers run RH Enterprise. Since
> CentOS has the same packages as RH Ent. and is updated frequently, it's
> a good way for us to do preliminary testing without worrying about OS
> differences as we move to production.
> We're also in the process of setting up our own up2date server to
> simplify the deployment of apps developed in-house.

Can you update or switch to and from CentOS, Whitebox, and Red Hat
Enterprise easily?

Can you upgrade from a Enterprise to CentOS just by changing your yum (or
similar) configurations? And visa versa?

If so, please share some examples on what you configure and approximately
how much downtime.

Or do you have to reinstall from scratch?

I am curious if you can do an upgrade on a production server to a
different distro based on same Enterprise source RPMs.

Jeremy C. Reed

                 open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training
                http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

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