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

DonJr djr1952 at hotpop.com
Thu Jan 3 00:13:34 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 10:42 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Yes my usage of RedHat was pre-yum.

And I had more of a tendance back then to install packages from other
sources and Custom made packages.

Although as far as "Custom packages" apt and apt-get seem to handle them
with no problem, as long as they are properly defined.

-- 
 DonJr



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