Re: How to upgrade Fedora from v10 to v11?

Ignoramus27956 wrote:

For Linux VMs CentOS is definitely the way to go. Commercial
applications are all targeted at RHEL so CentOS gives you the best
possible compatibility. Likewise for servers it's the free distro of
choice. On a server you don't run a GUI most of the time so you won't
miss all of the niceties that have been added to Gnome in the last
couple of years. The only problem with CentOS on desktop hardware is
it's lack of compatibility with the latest hardware. It uses a patched
2.6.18 kernel. Redhat does a good job of keeping up with new server
hardware but they are very slow about adding in new drivers for desktop
and laptop hardware. For those reasons I never use CentOS on my desktop
and laptop. I use CentOS on my servers that are running on older
hardware. On my newest server I use Fedora without X as the host OS and
I use CentOS 5.3 VMs to run commercial applications that require RHEL.
I keep a CentOS 5.3 VM on my laptop also.



How come it is based on Fedora 6, has Redhat stopped updating RHEL?

RHEL is updated whenever there is a bug to fix or a security problem. But not otherwise. And they continue support for 7 years. You get a lot of updates when a new release comes out (about every 1 1/2 years), and they then taper off. They do not put out a new release as often as Fedora do. They do backport bug and security fixes, but the do not change the basic release number. For example, the last two kernels I have received are:

kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5

The kernel-PAE-2.6.18- part will never change in RHEL5. So, assuming they pick up updates from Fedora, they will be backported into the original code; they will not substitute a later release because there are too many problems that could come up with other packages, some not supplied by Red Hat.

I do not know how often updates for RHEL 3 come out. But for RHEL 5, here are all the recent updates I have received (automatically):

xen bug fix update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-06-11 07:32:33 EDT
cups security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-06-03 14:06:14 EDT
freetype security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-30 04:17:10 EDT
net-snmp bug fix update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-30 04:16:51 EDT
ipsec-tools security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-19 14:45:30 EDT
ntp security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-19 04:40:21 EDT
poppler security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-13 13:11:41 EDT
perl-DBD-Pg security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-13 13:11:04 EDT
pango security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-08 06:49:36 EDT
acpid security update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-07 10:51:58 EDT
kernel security and bug fix update scheduled by (Red Hat) 2009-05-07 10:51:42 EDT

The reboot, implied below, was because I did not start running the latest kernel until then.

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