Thanks, this addresses a fair few doubts that I had. Something like that
should be on the Fedora website.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Peter Boy <pboy(a)barkhof.uni-bremen.de>
Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
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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