On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:05 pm, Will McDonald wrote: > The main advantage to running an EL distribution like CentOS is the > release cycle. > > FC4 will be EOL in, what, about a year after its release? That means > no more official updates apart from those provided by Fedora Legacy > for as long as they choose to support it. > > Updates for CentOS 4 should be available for another 5 years or > something like that. This allows you to manage servers without having > to constantly rebuild them in a running-to-keep-up fashion, or leaving > them to rot unmaintained and potentially insecure. Which is what will > can if you run FC on more than a handful of servers. > > CentOS might not have quite the abundance of packages FC has but for a > server you generally don't need the latest and greatest of everything. > Servers are there to do a job, as long as they accomplish this > reliably and securely that's all you need. > > If you absolutely need package X then between RPMForge, CentOS > Extras/Plus/Test and Jpackage you should be pretty much covered. > Failing that, grab the SRPM for FC3/4 and try rebuilding for CentOS. Thank you very much Will, It's very nice to know the fact that you mention. By the way, Can I take a screenshot during installation? I'm setting up RAID-1 and LVM and I'm planning to make a tutorial about it. Thank again, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 17:20:04 up 9:11, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org