On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:15 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
I am doing contract work, and was requested to install FC2 on my machine (last October). Since doing that, I have tentatively concluded that the Fedora Core Project is more or less beta test, and not really suitable for development work. Please anyone correct me if I am wrong.
This is in fact incorrect. CentOS is a better choice for remote servers or machines that you don't want to upgrade every year or so, but that doesn't make Fedora "beta" quality. It just has a more experimental nature and a shorter life cycle.
So I am considering a hop to a more stable environment. Since CentOS is akin to The Product Produced By A Major Vendor Of Linux Software Who Shall Remain Nameless, I was wondering if the transition might be easier to CentOs rather than, say Debian. (Makes me feel like I'm reading a Harry Potter novel about He Who Shall Not Be Named.)
Yes. CentOS is very Fedoraesque. It even uses yum.
Is there any reasonable hope of an "upgrade" from FC2 to CentOS 4.1 or should/must I backup, install, and restore?
A clean install is recommended, although an upgrade may be possible.
...agree w/all the above. A few months back, I went thru this exact same senario. I really was/am a fedora fan just for what it is and the fedora list people..they great! But, hey, I am new and still fighting the learn curve but have servers up and running. I had a really bad experience thru my own fault, moving from fc 2 to 3 ...lost the whole enchillada. Anyway, It did get me thinking that I really was not pleased at all w/the very short time til legacy was gone...push came to shove...some people on the fedora list turned me on to Centos which I had never heard of! I love the distant future to have to face legacy things and it's still the same subject matter...I am running 3 boxes which used to be fc3 and now are centos and I think it's at least 1 thing I have done right lately!
There again, I agree w/Ignacio and Brian Smith on this for sure...Hey now, Fedora is cool but every couple months you gotta go major w/it by definition.
John Rose