[TriLUG] FC2/3 on Dell PE 650/750 instead of RHEL 3.x

Mike Johnson mike at enoch.org
Mon Oct 4 11:17:18 EDT 2004


Turnpike Man [turnpike420 at yahoo.com] wrote:
> I still hold concerns for distros such as WBEL and CentOS as to whether the
> updates will be available as quickly as necessary.  Also, are there "up2date"
> like features that will let me know when something needs to be updated?  Manual
> updates do not appeal to me in the least.

Ah, but you're missing one of the beauties of CentOS/WBEL.  -If-
something happens to those projects, Red Hat releases source RPMs for
their updates for RHEL.  It's a simple matter of rpmbuild --rebuild $SRPM
and you have your update.  One build box, set up as a yum repository,
and you're all set.

In the Linux world, there are no absolutes.  You have to take educated
risks.  Who would have thought regular, free, Red Hat Linux (not Fedora)
would have gone away?  CentOS/WBEL are educated risks.

On the other hand, SuSE's Enterprise stuff is real attractive for work
type stuff...

Mike
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