On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > > > The reason is that RHEL 5 is based on Fedora 6, so the upgrade should > > work out smoothly. > > This also means I'm almost not really upgrading anything. > FC5->CentOS5 is similar to FC5->F6 > (ok, with some backports, I know) Exactly, such as firefox, openoffice and so on. (clip) Also, remember that Fedora EPEL has quite a lot of packages nowadays for RHEL(ish) distros, so you won't trade off in package availability as much as you think. > The machines are actually not mine and they are used in production. > This is why I'm didn't upgrade in the past (except FC4->FC5). > They work perfectly and the only thing which is pushing me > is the lack of SMART support, which I find unforgivable for a file > server (yes, yes, it is all properly backupped :-) ). CentOS 5.3 has smartmontools capable of monitoring SATA drives. A file server really doesn't need other things than a stable OS (and a fast file system). -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
