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 -- My wife is always bitching..."I'm so sick of diapers!". I don't know why she's bitching at me...it's her mom and dad not mine!