[Dclug] RedHat Enterprise Linux subscription expired... oh my.

[David Turvene]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:37 -0400, Jesse Becker wrote:

> I've done the conversion from RHEL to CentOS a handful of times, and
> it isn't too bad.  Basically, you do the following:
> 
> 1)  Disable up2date and rhn, and any auto-update scripts you have.
> 1.5)  Remove up2date/rhn.  This isn't strictly needed, but may help to
> prevent confusion later
> 2)  Install Yum
> 3)  Configure the yum .repo files, if they need to be different from
> the defaults.
> 4)  Run "yum update".
> 
> Since RHEL and CentOS are binary compatable, you should be fine.
> 

Fedora seems like the obvious change from RHEL since they are both
originally from Redhat.  I keep hearing good things about CentOS though.
Why do you prefer it over Fedora (or Ubuntu for that matter)?

Dave
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