Re: Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Wood
. From: lancebaynes87 lancebayne...@zoho.com To: Scientific-Linux scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:28 AM Subject: Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21692/scientific-linux-which

Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?

2011-09-29 Thread lancebaynes87
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21692/scientific-linux-which-version-has-bigger-support-date We have several Desktop PC's that has Fedora 14 installed. Great! But: We need a Linux distro that doesn't need a reinstall in every half year. (no, dist-upgrade is not an option!). We found

Re: Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?

2011-09-29 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi lancebaynes87! On 2011.09.29 at 04:28:18 -0700, lancebaynes87 wrote next: SOLUTION #2 if we install the: http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-27-Install-DVD.iso.torrent that's a rolling release. Now I haven't used any rolling release

Re: Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?

2011-09-29 Thread Larry Linder
Major concern about rolling upgrades is that you never really know the side effects. We have been on SL 5.6 for a long time and everything works that we use. If SL 6.X is going to be supported for the foreseeable future then we will make the upgrade to all of our systems. We use SL 5.6 to run

Re: Scientific-Linux: which version has bigger support date?

2011-09-29 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Larry Linder! On 2011.09.29 at 09:32:51 -0400, Larry Linder wrote next: Major concern about rolling upgrades is that you never really know the side effects. We have been on SL 5.6 for a long time and everything works that we use. If SL 6.X is going to be supported for the foreseeable