[Sussex] Upgrading from RHEL to Fedora

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On 6:09:56 pm 31/08/2005 Paul Tansom <paul at aptanet.com> wrote:
> Video yes, network and sound no :( On the commercial support side of

Ah, the nforce nonsense. I always go for an intel network card and an
sblive to avoid support issues. Also, without wanting to sound harsh, you
should have checked the supported hardware lists.

> based) are not on the Red Hat supported list therefore they are
> reluctant to talk to you and even suggest switching to Fedora or using

That is pretty poor and I have to say that my brief encounters with RH
support have been pretty useless.

> That's as I understand it now. Not sure, as I say, whether the first
> impression was a misunderstanding or a poor choice in the first

It's the way Ubuntu has been since the first release - I've been using it
since the warty preview and the sudo plan was in place then.

> I have done, and the configuration is very nice. Functionality wise
> I've not found any strong reason to upgrade, although I will be.

For me it was the ACLs, I can now reject malware and other undesirable
emails during the SMTP session, so there is no bounce mail to generate.
This combined with sender verification during the SMTP session cut out the
spam related overhead on my server by a huge amount.

> Because post release unstable becomes less stable. Testing at least
> has a period of testing in unstable before a package moves on down
> the chain.

An enforced period of testing, which can leave you broken for days, weeks
or months after the fix is in unstable because the package is churning
there and never lasting long enough to be pulled into testing.

I would always advise those looking to step outside stable to go for
unstable, upgrade sparsely and check the BTS/ml regularly to spot any major
 problems.

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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