[Novalug] Advantages of server based on CentOS/Ubuntu, etc?

[Matt Thompson]

The heavens stretched forth and Shawn Wells decreed the following on or 
about 01/02/2008 10:42 AM:
> 
> DonJr wrote:
>> In all the time that I ran RedHat in the {:distant:} past I never once
>> even successfully upgraded in place from one version to the next.
>> --    
> 
> Hmm, that must have been awhile ago ;)
> 
> # yum update redhat-release
> # yum -y update

I was *required* to do this for Fedora 8 this year.  My box fell prey to 
the infamous depsolve bug #372011 since I had packages from Livna.

Turns out, I really like the non-CD method and will probably use it from 
now on.  Anaconda is really good with initial install, but has just 
never worked well for upgrades in my experience.  Of course, that's 
probably due to me using a lot of outside packages.

Matt

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Naval Research Laboratory
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