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. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050816/ed3c7195/attachment-0005.sig>