Server Upgrade - Possible Breakage

Peter Rukavina

I’ve spent the later part of this afternoon upgrading this server from RedHat 9 to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Expect possible breakage until the upgrade bumps are ironed out. Update: all systems appear to be operating well.

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Submitted by Will Pate on

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Upgrading to the 2.6.4 kernel with Fedora made my laptop very unhappy. The trackpad went wonky, ALSA killed sound and important websites became very slow.

Submitted by Cody Swanson on

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The thing I think you will find most frustrating about moving to RHEL is that fact that there is signifigantly less community support for it, so next time you want to install that new killer app on your server you’ll be rolling your own RPMS or googling till your fingers fall off to find RHEL versions of the RPMS.

And as far as redhat network (I assume by rednet network you mean redhat network) for fedora, I’ve found apt-rpm + a little shell script kung-foo to be just as effective for RPM based distros, including redhat 7.x, 8, and 9.

Besides, real men use FreeBSD. :P

Submitted by nathan on

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If by “RedNet Network for Fedora” you mean the up2date utility, then that exists in Fedora. You can also use either APT or YUM directly. And there’s already a mirror in your building used to update the SO systems.

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