Probably said by Strong, but it wasn't attributed: >>> By the way, I've heard here some people use Fedora for servers! - >>> How do they solve the problem on short period support? Tim: >> My guess: Continuing to operate the server with outdated software, >> past the end-of-life period. >> >> I have an internal mail and webserver in that situation. But I'd be >> loathe to do that with a public one. Strong: > And here comes the problem: how do they do this for public. We could only guess, we can't *know* how someone else does it unless they say how. They may well just carry on using un-updated software, just hoping that it won't be a problem. They could compile software from the sources. They might on update to the new releases of Fedora and transfer their own files over. My update strategy has usually been to install to a new harddrive, if I'm not installing to a completely new computer. Get that new system up and running. Copy over the old data to the new system. Put that new system on-line. Keep the old system as a backup for a prolonged period. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
