[Nottingham] RedHat 9 Upgrade

[Simon]

On 10/6/05, Mike Haber <Mike.Haber at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Morning all,
> Hope it was a good meet last night.
>
> I've inherited a server running RedHat 9 that I'd like to upgrade. I could
> just put debian on it, but that may involve more work than I'd like at the
> moment to ensure the new version works exactly the same as the old one.
> So what's the best way to update this server? I'm just bothered about it
> being secure rather than bleeding edge, and I'm not totally current with the
> red hat way of doing things.


If you want the easiest method and you want a secure server then I reccomend
to do a fresh installation of CentOS. CentOS is essentially GPL'd Redhat
Enterprise Linux and they ensure that it is kept as close to RHEL as
possible as they use the same source code.

Simon
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