On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, John Walsh wrote: > As a current RedHat Linux 9.0 user - I'm wondering if Fedora is the > replacement for me ? Rether - yes. Support (patches, updates) for RHL9 ends in 5 months. Since then you'll need to patch by yourself or change to Fedora or other distro - but if you've liked RHL you'll like Fedora - IMHO it is more polished than 9 but nothing realy revolutional. Just a decent good, modern distro. > Although I am a software developer - I did not want to get into a > 'techi' relationship with Linux - I just wanted a system which will > work. And Fedora does that. :-) There are some little issues but they are very little and are able to sole whithin a few Google clicks. Not much more trouble then with RHL9. > I don't mind doing configuration, but I didn't want to be chasing > problems... You can leave your current configs - in most cases it'll work. > updates available (up2date), Now (Fedora) you can do this also with APT and YUM, personally - never liked up2date. > My other options would be: > RH Enterprise WS - not designed to be a server ? No. > RH Enterprise ES - all that I need (?), but expensive. I don't think you need it - this stuff is for running big servers, replacing Windows and UNIX on proffesional enteprice servers - not user workstation. > My only concern is the frequency of new releases and if this means > that I will need to re-install at the same rate - and how that effects > me keeping my server going with all its history (eg. mailman lists... > which I am new to, so have not been through an upgrade yet, but I did > find and half fix a bug in it). You do not have to re-install. Just do update with one of mentioned tools and it'll work. > In fact, on the subject of doing re-installs (for an upgrade), I have > a suggestion. Would it be possible to create a floppy disc with your > install options stored on it, so that when you come to do your next > install, you can pop in the floppy and click the button 'get options > from floppy' ? It is possible now. Even wit RHL it was possible. It does it at end of install - you must have missed this. > Or, is it possible to create a minimal list of all the 'top level' > RPM's, such that selecting just those would force all the dependencies > to be installed too... Minimal installation is also possible. -- ,--------, |`. .'| Konrad Kosmowski |.'`--'`.| K.Kosmowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx '--------'
