SV: SV: older releases

[Bill Davidsen]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>> The long term solution is to install a recent Fedora and run FC4 in a
>>>> virtual machine.
>>> CentOS 4 would be a better choice (still gets security updates and is in
>>> the version range the OP mentioned (it's based on FC3 with some FC4
>>> stuff)).
>>>
>> That's true for a dedicated machine, an a good suggestion.
>>
>> However, on a general use machine I want the newer stuff. ;-) I was more
>> thinking the "best of both worlds" with a VM.
> 
> There's nothing which would prevent using CentOS 4 in the VM. There's no 
> requirement that a VM on a Fedora host contains a Fedora guest. (And CentOS 
> is closely related anyway.) I don't see why you'd use FC4 in the VM rather 
> than CentOS 4 unless you really need those packages which are newer in FC4 
> or FC4 updates than in the current CentOS 4 updates (and repos like kde-
> redhat don't provide the updates you need).
> 
The original poster specified Fedora, I took him at his word.


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