On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 06:17 -0700, Rob wrote: > Hello, > > Main issue is: > What are the essential differences between > RedHat Enterprise (Taroon), and FC 5? > > A while ago, a vendor of commercial software > insisted his software ran only when using Redhat > Enterprise Linux. Eversince we are stuck with > RedHat Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 5). > > This RH Enterprise version is 'not-so-legal', > and thus we can not upgrade or fix bugs. > Hence, I consider installing Fedora Core 5 instead. > > The boss here is suspicious about my plan, because > "the vendor has said to use Enterprise" etc., > although the vendor never was explicit why. > > What kind of traps could I expect to happen when > upgrading Enterprise (Taroon) to Fedora Core 5? If you want to be "legal" and get updates, just install CentOS 3, which is an RHEL3 clone. Paul.
