[lug] Moving from RedHat 8 to Fedora

[P. Scott DeVos]

Gordon Golding wrote:
> I'm thinking of taking an old RedHAt 8 machine down and rebuilding it with Fedora.
> 
> 1)  What's the opinion on Fedora vs. RedHat?  Is it _really_ better?
> 
> 2)  Can anybody think of major issues that I need to wath out for?
> Our code-base is Java 1.4 with Postgres.
> 

I would look into getting a tummy.com subscription to KRUD.  KRUD is 
Fedora slightly repackaged, but tummy.com does a great job additional 
testing before releasing.  You'll be 3 to 6 months behind in moving the 
next version of Fedora, but it is worth it.

BTW, tummy.com only has i386 version, so if you are running 64bit (like 
me) then you have to go with straight Fedora.

The main difficulties I can recall were:

Moving to 2.6 kernel -- true with any modern distribution.
Different default mail setup: postfix with dovecot instead of sendmail 
with uw-imap.

I have not found the number of available packages to be limited.  I 
recommend that you subscribe the default yum repositories plus the dag 
wieers repository and no others.  I have found this combination to 
provide for a huge number of packages while maintaining stability.  I 
have had problems when subscribed to both dag and freshrpms 
repositories.  IMHO, dag does the best job providing stable 
packages--especially for x86_64.



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P. Scott DeVos