I don't think the RH workstation is that expense (it is an option). You can get WhiteBox linux which is an open sourced version of RHEL 3.0. http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Having started looking at gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.legacy, I'm woefully > confused. > > On the one hand, there're some very recent posts by impressive people > introducing themselves; on the other, there's a thread called "Good bye, > Fedora Legacy!" started on Mon, 17 May 2004 17:43:04 +0200, by Michael > Schwendt, which also has impressive participants -- and which seems to > imply, to one of little wit looking for up, that security can't be counted > on. > > For me, that's an OS-breaker; as I said in another thread, well-nigh > automated updating, especially of security issues, has always been a sine > qua non for my use of linux. I don't know enough to do otherwise, and am > not likely to live long enough to learn .... > > It seems to me there's a broader point here; somebody please correct me as > called for. My very limited understanding while mulling RH9's > then-approaching EOL and replacements, and watching LUGs, was that one > purpose of the whole Fedora project was to keep something remotely > familiar (read manageable) to those of us such as old retired farts who > couldn't read a line of code if it bit us, much less write one. Or am I > barking up the wrong distro? > > My pension won't begin to keep me in RHEL, and I don't have the savvy to > keep up with 99 44/100% of the discussion on any of the fedora lists on > gmane, even if I had the time -- especially with The Seasons about to > open. > > I have the System Settings > Service Configuration set up so that yum is > checked; and under Status it says "Nightly yum update is enabled." Also, > root's mail contains a logwatch and a cron report daily, most of both of > which is way over my head. I *think* that the occasional-to-rare > non-trivial responses I get to "yum update" as root during the day mean > that it is working -- and that cron daemon reports like the one below mean > that Adelphia The Eternally Accursed has dropped my connection yet again, > rather than that there's anything wrong with my yum.conf or the mirror. > ===== > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:02:06 -0400 From: Cron Daemon > <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Cron <root@localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > > error: Ignoring up2date.rpmnew, because of .rpmnew ending > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: > > Error getting file > http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/heade > r.info > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): Error getting file > http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/heade > r.info > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > [ALL of message] > ===== > SO : VVDQ of VVDQs : Is Fedora really still (if it ever was) the distro of > choice for people like me who regret RH9, or is there another? If so, > what? > > I don't in the least mind staying one release behind -- upgrading RH9 to > FC1 only after FC2 comes out, FC1 to FC2 after FC3 does, and so forth. > But, much as I prefer that everything that I do often enough to remember > be keyboard-driven, I'm too absent-minded to hope to handle anything > advanced without a GUI, and probably other crutches besides. > > -- > Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux > Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about! > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- James Marcinek Solutions Architect JEMConsult.biz, Inc 813.416.1324
