On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > I thought Fedora Core updates were done by the community, not by Redhat. > Is the community no longer going to provide yum updates for FC5?
That was the intention, particularly of the fedoralegacy project. However, this hasn't turned out like they had wanted or any of us planned. Besides that fact, I really wouldn't want to have my servers depend on security patches from some third party. With CentOS, the updates are essentially coming from RedHat, and are guaranteed to be forthcoming for the next 5 years or so. > > Can RHEL5 be downloaded free? Can you do yum updates free? Or does the > whole RHEL5 world revolve around a required subscription? RHEL5 is subscription only. For Academic use (maybe even personal use) you can get a subscription for $50 a year. CentOS 5 is a community-based distro that's recompiled from RHEL5 sources and is bug-for-bug compatible in every way. It *is* RHEL5. CentOS has a large mirrored network of yum repositories. To upgrade FC5 to CentOS, you probably just need to install the following rpms from CentOS5: yum centos-release centos-release-notes and then carefully do a yum update. :) packages: http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/ iso images: http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.0/isos/i386/ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
