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Why upgrade when you can update? (for now at least) |
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Saturday, 15 May 2004 |
For some time, I've been trying to decide what to do with the operating system on this server. It runs RedHat 8.0 which RedHat no longer supports (a casualty of splitting their development into Fedora and an Enterprise line).
I considered upgrading to Fedora, switching to Debian (maybe Gentoo?), or sucking it up and paying for RedHat Enterprise. Fedora seems too unstable to me (although Core 2 is coming out next week and includes the 2.6 kernel...), Debian and Gentoo just seem like a lot of work to get back to the same place I started, and paying for any distro just isn't in the shoestring spirit of this server.
The solution for now? Yum plus FedoraLegacy.org. I got the inspiration from a Linux Journal article.
Pretty easy setup really. Install the two RPMs yum depends on, then install yum and add the fedoralegacy.com server to the updates section of /etc/yum.conf. Yummy!
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