Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) nils at lemonbit.nl
Thu Sep 14 12:07:37 UTC 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:23, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
> wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Plz see subject.  I'd like to clean up my yum repo list as it
>>> appears some
>>> of the repos have disappeared.  Are there any new ones for truely
>>> legacy
>>> stuff?
>>
>> I don't believe so. Fedora Core 2 is dead, you'll have to upgrade to
>> a newer Fedora Core version (or migrate to something like CentOS if
>> need a longer life cycle than Fedora's).
>>
> I was afraid of that, but the last CentOS I pulled, 4.1, was even  
> older
> than much of this heavily tarball updated FC2.  I hate going  
> backwards &
> then reinventing all these wheels again.

Is this a desktop workstation or a server? If this is a workstation  
or a non-production server, why not just go with the Fedora flow? I  
run Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it's working just fine.

If you really don't like upgrading your OS every couple of months I'd  
backup my data and do a fresh install of CentOS 4.4. However, CentOS  
5 will be out in 6 months... :o) No immediate need to upgrade then  
though as CentOS 4.x will get full updates until Feb 29 2008 and  
maintenance updates until Feb 29 2012 (http://www.centos.org/modules/ 
smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=42).

Nils Breunese.




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