----Original Message Follows---- From: Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Redhat to Fedora - up2date/RHN Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:07:47 +0100
Hello,
Am Di, den 04.11.2003 schrieb Charles Gregory um 06:41:
> Now, less than a year later, Red Hat (basic) is being dropped, the RH
> "Enterprise Edition" is ridiculously expensive (for a small not-for-profit
> community net, anyways),
You may be one of those who will suffer from that change in Red Hats marketing strategie. There are a lot of similiar fears, here. But things are really not as worse as they some people consider it to be. You may check out Red Hat Professional Workstation (about $ 100), which should fullfill your criteria well. You will benefit from a prolonged RHN subscription. And still quite affordable.
> and while everyone seems to think that this > 'Fedora' project is an adeqaute replacement, there are no real documents > on *how* to make this migration/transition,
It's just an update, just as any previous RH version
> and whether 'up2date' will > continue to work in the same way. Or how it *will* work if it is > different.
It will, using it's own fedora repository
> There is also no clear indication in the downloads page of which versions > are 'stable' and suitable for a production server environment, and which > ones are 'test' versions. Or I'm looking in the wrong place.
You are :-) Using the software you will see repositories fedora-core and fedura-updates-released (and perhaps fedora-updates-testing in the future). And there will be rawhide for testing / beta / alpha stuff.
> To me there > is a much stronger flavour of Fedora being a 'test' or 'development' site > that than a place to obtain stable Linux distributions. But this can't be > right, can it?
Fedora is meant to be as stable as Red Hat Linux has been. But its life time will be shorter (about 8-9 months). So you will have to update your machines more ffrequently. Might be not a good idea for servers.
Another difference is support. There is no "guranteered" support for Fedora, but there will be a "de facto" support. Might be sufficient for some environements but will definitely not for a lot of others.
Again, check Red Hat Professional Workstation as an alternative.
Peter
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