On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Mauriat M <mirandam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How near term? Just out of curiosity, since this is a server, do you > plan to upgrade out of some deficiency in Fedora 8? F8 will still be > supported for some time. > > You posted in the past asking about a howto for Oracle on F8. Did you > ever find that? Or did you figure it out yourself? I hope you kept > good notes. > > Samba and Apache/Tomcat are natively supported by Fedora so I imagine > that there will be a well defined upgrade path for those components. > As for Oracle, it would be wise to do some testing on a separate F9 > install. Even if Oracle runs without incidence on F9, running an > upgrade by the F9 installer may still not be perfect. There are many > reasons why an upgrade may not work as well as a fresh install (e.g. > manual tweaks, source installs, 3rd party packages). > > I'm assuming this server is critical in which case I would recommend > testing on a separate system (or virtualized if you don't have > hardware). The more testing, the less potential hiccups. > > Although I could be wrong, I doubt you'll get much experience from > users here matching your exact same configuration/scenario. > > -Mauriat I won't upgrade for at least a month after the GA. I did find the Oracle Howto on several locations, but they weren't available until about 2-weeks after Fedora 8 GA. Although I called this a server machine, and it is, I like to do some things on it that require resources that aren't available on my other machines (sometimes it's bad that Linux runs so well on older hardware), so I like the new KDE4. My issue with the Apache and Tomcat that Fedora provides is that I like to install my software where I want my software installed - in it's very own file systems. This helps me when I must do a full install, all I have to remember is what I've put in /etc/rc.d/init.d, /etc, /etc/profile.d, /usr/bin, and my yum repositories. I would use the provided RPMs if I could control where the install is placed. Thanks, Gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
