RE: [PLUG] Steps to compile 2.6.x kernel from source for Redhat 8.0/9 base. And get Fedora updates

[Magnus Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 rekaye1005@earthlink.net wrote:

> what's the upgrade path after redhat 9?

I see several paths that I could live with:

1) Bleeding edge desktop, upgrade your distro every six months.  
Free as in speech & beer.  Fedora 
Core is your answer.  If you go this way, wait a week or so for Fedora 
Core 2 to come out which already has the 2.6 kernel and other new goodies.

2) Conservative enterprise distro, desktop & server, distro lasts as long 
as the hardware.  commercial support agreement manditory, and you can't go 
handing copies out to your buds.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  My experience 
with their support is not warm and fuzzy so I am not enthusiastic about 
this option.

3) Conservative enterprise distro, desktop & server, distro lasts as long 
as the hardware.  Commercial support agreement optional.  Free as in 
speech & beer.  CentOS 3.1.  Free clone of RHEL 3.0.  This is what I'm now 
running at $WORK in a post-RH9 world.

4) Somewhere in between options 1 & 2.  SuSE Professional 9.1.  $89 per 
host.  Comes with some fairly bleeding edge software, mostly but not all 
free.  Support available.  I have been using this for a week at home and 
for a business desktop this is probably the most well polished distro I've 
seen to date.  My only real gripe in comparison to the RHAT offerings is 
that it is slow.  If this is for $WORK, take a good long look at this.

For $WORK I would likely choose between CentOS and SuSE.  For home, Fedora 
Core 2 has some more appeal but you're still stuck looking elsewhere for 
mp3 software.

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