Les Mikesell wrote:
Mike C wrote:
Can one use the src rpm for F8 and re-configure it for FC7?
While you could probably patch every hole yourself with source builds
or rebuilding src rpms from newer fedora versions, you would be better
off not using Fedora if you can't or don't want to keep up with the
upgrade cycle, and fortunately there are distributions designed for
that situation. RHEL5 would be very similar if you want a version
with paid support or CentOS5 if you don't. Either will have several
more years of continuing update support. They aren't even such a bad
choice for desktop use now that the updates have brought OpenOffice
and Firefox up to near-current releases (an unusual move - most
updates are just backported bug/security fixes).
Yes you can use the current F9 src rpm and build it for F7. I did the
same thing for FC6. As for Les' contention about the upgrade cycle,
while I generally agree in this respect I would like to add, if I COULD
upgrade my current FC6 system to something newer I would. But, I can't
because of this silly mkinitrd bug that is not allowing my Qlogic FCcard
firmware to load on boot. With that said, I'm stuck as it were until
that's fixed. Sure, I could probably upgrade despite that, but I
won't. I have too much running on that system to manually unload/load
that blasted module after every reboot, even if I don't reboot it
often. It's a silly bug that should never be a problem.
So, in some cases it's not a matter of 'keeping up with the Fedora's',
it's a matter of other problems.
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