[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> 
>> Even so, some people claim to have done successful upgrades from
>> fedora to the corresponding EL/Centos with just a few quirks that
>> probably could have been avoided with a little central planning.  That
>> is, even if it is impossible to coordinate the changes that lead to
>> RHEL/Centos, there should be a way to have the final fedora update do
>> a clean conversion - or at least better than most users could do on
>> their own.
> 
> Why on earth would anybody start out on Fedora, and then move over to
> RHEL/CentOS when it nears EOL? Better start off on RHEL/CentOS...

That puts you about a year and a half behind if you wait for the release 
before starting.  Or you are developing to wildly different libraries, 
database versions, etc., etc. if you develop on the current version for 
something you plan to run on the next one.

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    Les Mikesell
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