On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote: > Thus I am shopping for a new OS to solve this problem and the problem of > continually being a beta tester if one is an up to date Fedora user. > With Fedora it seems that one just gets a new installation working > nicely when support for it is dropped and the cycle starts all over > again. I'd like to get away from that. > > So... questions. > > a) I am running F8 right now. Most, but not all, of the package > versions seem about the same as CentOS 5.2. Kernels are the notable > exception to this rule. Could I forego F8 updates for a while, to leave > CentOS catch up, and then add the CentOS repository to my repo list and > "update" to the CentOS via yum ? > It would not work too well. For stability you would be better installing CentOS-5 as the glibc, etc in F-8 are much newer than EL-5. > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to > be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but > that is a pain. > CentOS is a bug-for-bug rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHEL-5 will always be 2.6.18 so this does not look this would be a good match. Using bleeding edge kernels on CentOS-5 are up to the user to build and debug. Not sure how many applications you would have to update to work with a bleeding edge kernel: udev, hal, dbus, etc would all need updates and the programs relying on them would need updates... recurse until you run out of packages. > c) Is there any problem with using the livna repository for various > things that I might need ? I notice that they don't have a CentOS > specific repository, but would it be OK to point to F8 or so and use > those RPMs ? > No.. you would need to use EL-5 repository. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"