Mr. Davis, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Davis" <lance at uklinux.net> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Cc: "David Parsley" <parsley at linuxjedi.org> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] New member, new OS, old Tao user > On Fri, 26 May 2006, Steve Campbell wrote: > >> Mr. Parsley, the main man at the Tao Linux group, has announced that he >> will >> no longer be able to do his thing for Tao Linux. > > Where has that been announced ??? Mr. Parsley notified members of the Tao list that this was forthcoming. I don't suppose he had much reason to 'publicly' announce the decision. It was a personal decision that everyone would agree with, and I have all the respect in the world for him in making his decision. > >> Just recently, I had >> decided to investigate CentOS 4 before his announcement, and liked a lot >> of >> what I saw. Due to the Tao announcement, I have decided that CentOS will >> "have" to be the OS for my company in the future. Hence, my new >> membership >> to this list. > > Welcome ... Thank you. I look forward to "meeting" all of you in the CentOS lists. > >> I would like any opionions any of you may have to offer, and perhaps, >> some >> suggestions on migration to CentOS 3.7 from Tao 1 Update 6. >> >> I have usually applied updates only when needed on my current servers. >> Some >> cannot be updated due to the commercial applications being ran on them. >> So >> my first concern is the lateral migration to make CentOS 3 work on my >> current Tao 1 machines. > > The migration to CentOS 3 should be fairly seamless. As you say - the > package source is the same. > > We need to work out a migration mechanism, but mainly it will involve > changes to config files. We would obviously like to do some testing to > make sure that there are no nasties lurking. That would be great. I found a link in the archives that make some quick suggestions on how to approach this. It was for the S390 version, but it appears to be a great starting point. > > One issue may be if you have used the 'protectbase' extra that tao added > to yum. We do have a version of yum 2.4 ready for CentOS 3.x , that will > provide equivalent functionality (and lots more) - which we will expedite > into testing. I use it on some machines, and others I skip. > > Regards > > Lance Davis Thanks for the fast responses I am seeing. > > > -- > uklinux.net - > The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >