Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems I haven't already seen (and know were fixed). The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ budget.
On Jan 23, 2008 7:38 PM, Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com> wrote:> Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for > me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems > I haven't already seen (and know were fixed). > > The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so > frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I > would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ > budget.As I understand it, CentOS 5 is basically RHEL 5, which is based on Fedora Core 6. So I think it is safe to say that you will be at home in CentOS. Sounds like it is what you need. Jonathan
Tim Alberts wrote:> Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for > me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems > I haven't already seen (and know were fixed). > > The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so > frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I > would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ > budget. >I moved from FC6 to CentOS 5 and almost everything is peachy as can be for me. On my lan "utility" server, everything worked exactly as expected - it was the first time ever that I installed a new OS on that machine and never had to reboot into the previous install root until I ironed things out w/ new install. Everything just worked (except for tdfx driver for voodoo3 which I had to patch but that machine is actually headless most of the time). On my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T20) - at the beginning of FC6 - it did not properly suspend, and when shutting down, sometimes it would power off the drive but fail to power off the laptop itself. By the end of FC6 - suspend worked perfectly and powering down always worked perfectly. CentOS is currently like early FC6 in that respect - suspend does not work properly, and when shutting down, it sometimes does not power the laptop off. Those are minor to me though - as I rarely want to use suspend and I can manually power it off if the acpi poweroff fails.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:38:59 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:> Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for me? > I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems I > haven't already seen (and know were fixed).I have a testbed machine triple-booting from time to time to F8, C5, and Ubuntu 7.10; after having run RH & clones since 7.1, I still prefer them; but I want something easier to keep up with for my wife to use after she outlives me, as I'm sure she will. One thing I find that you may not is that there are several apps not in the other distros -- mostly betas, to be sure; but I miss them when I don't have them. (She won't.) I do recommend, for that reason, that you start by dual-booting, preferably often, while you get used to the differences. Otherwise, though, yes, CentOS should suit you fine. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3 Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com> wrote:> Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for > me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems > I haven't already seen (and know were fixed). > > The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so > frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I > would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ > budget. >If you are going to do a 'reinstall' of the systems.. you should have no problems. If you do a up-grade from Fedora-6 to CentOS there will be a couple of problems as the packages in 6 kept on moving forward after the 'fork' in the road. I needed to hand install packages to get past this so that I didnt end up with 'unsupported' but 'newer' items on my box. The best method I had was: rpm -qa --qf='%{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n' | sort > oldrpms and then compare that with what 5 had in them to look for conflicts/version changes. Make sure I had plans on how to upgrade those by hand (I think the kernel and the glibc were the tricky ones where I needed to do some reboot shuffles to get it cleanly working.) -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"