Fedora, Debian or Gentoo

[Kelson Vibber]

"Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at weiss.name> wrote:
>So, if you're planning on implementing a server on FC1, are you planning on
>upgrading the server in the March/April timeframe, or just watching the bug
>lists carefully and downloading new packages manually?

We have several options, based on how Fedora Core and Fedora Legacy shake 
out over the next few months.
    * Apply updates from Fedora Legacy, which plans to support Fedora Core 
releases as well as Red Hat 7.3 and 9.
    * Once FC2 appears stable (in the non-crashing sense), upgrade "live" 
using apt-rpm or yum, followed by a single reboot (if testing shows it's 
possible, anyway).  If this works, downtime won't be any longer than 
installing an errata kernel.  (On the other hand, the move to 2.6 may 
complicate this.)
    * Point services to a backup server, upgrade, and switch back.  (Not 
something we want to do several times a year, though.)
    * Switch to another, more stable (in the reliable support sense) 
distribution after we've had time to experiment with and evaluate other 
options
At this point RH9 and FC1 look roughly equivalent as far as support 
lifetime is concerned.  Red Hat updates are coming out earlier, but an 
upgrade from FC1 to FC2 seems likely to be less painful than an upgrade 
from RH9 to FC2.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>