On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:43, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have FC 3 running on my "play/test" box. Is CentOS (RHEL) a level above?
>
> Can I do an Upgrade or should I do an Install?
CentOS 4 -> RHEL 4. Fedora Core 3 is slightly further along on some packages
than RHEL4; the RHEL4 codebase was frozen before the FC3 codebase was, but
for the most part they are comparable.
Except when you go to do an upgrade. I've not seen a direct comparison of
package versions (primarily because I went from FC2 to CentOS 4 instead of
going through FC3) but I'm pretty sure an upgrade from FC3 to CentOS 4 is
going to leave some FC3 packages in place.
Since then I've not followed Fedora development (simply not enough time), so
have stuck with CentOS 4, which has done PARI an excellent job thus far.
I would recommend an Install rather than an upgrade, although you can try an
upgrade using the upgradeany command line parameter when you boot the CentOS
install media (sorry, I don't remember the exact syntax, it might be 'linux
upgradeany').
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