RedHat 9 upgrade

[Michael Schwendt]

On 23/12/06, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Kevin K Sent: December 22, 2006 20:13
> >
> > CentOS 3.X is essentially a supported version of RH9.  Based
> > originally on a stable version of RH9, and updated since.

No.

> > CentOS 4.X has a 2.6 based kernel, and originally based on one of the
> > Fedora Core releases.

No, not at all.

> > 4 should run most programs for RH9, and has newer versions of
> > provided packages.
> >
> > The Fedora Core versions are more bleeding edge, with much shorter
> > support lifetimes.  If you have stuck with RH9 all these years, you
> > will probably be happier with a RHEL based system.
> >
>
> I think you better double check that. My understanding is that the
> CentOS distributions are based on the RHEL sources. CentOS 3 is based
> on RHEL3, CentOS 4 is based on RHEL4, etc.

That's right. CentOS is based on the freely and publicly available
RHEL source RPM packages. They build binary rpms from the source rpms
and add contributed extra packages, too.

With regard to Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux", see:
http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/