A friend of mine tried to do an upgrade from Mandrake 6.0 to RedHat 6.1.
It was such a mess that he wound up re-installing completely with RedHat.
Kirk
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> Hi, Joe,
>
> That's interesting that you mention that upgrading from Red Hat 5.x to
> 6.x was hell. I'm upgrading from Mandrake 5.3 to Mandrake 6.1, and it's
> the basement of hell. So many things got broken, and I'm completely
> unable to compile a 2.2 kernel with nfs support. I stuck with Mandrake
> because of their Pentium optimization, but I've decided it's not worth
> three days, and counting, of trying to get things working. I was
> wondering, is it possible to "upgrade" from Mandrake 6.1 to Red Hat
> 6.1? Thanks,
>
>
>
> Hidong
>
>
>
> Joe Brenner wrote:
> >
> > Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm a linux newbie and purchased Corel Linux and RH 6.1
> > > What is the difference between the debian based over RH?
> >
> > I am and remain a redhat user, but one of the reasons I
> > would look at the Debian distribution is because of the
> > package management system. They've essentially solved the
> > problem of automatic security upgrades over the net (which
> > strikes me as *the* critical security technology... most
> > crackers are using known exploits that still exist only
> > because the sysadmin hasn't gotten to installing the fix).
> >
> > There are a number of things that annoy me about using RPMs
> > (e.g. nearly *every* time you try and install something,
> > there's some problem with dependencies that you have to
> > resolve semi-manually... This is another thing that the
> > debian folks claim to have solved already).
> >
> > My expectation is that the RPM folks will add these features
> > eventually (I wouldn't be suprised if they're very close
> > already), but if I needed them immediately, I'd switch to
> > Debian.
> >
> > If you're worried about career options... well, Redhat
> > certainly seems to have the publicity and the momentum to be
> > a safe choice for the near future. Depending on what you're
> > interested in doing, you could argue that learning FreeBSD
> > is a better choice (a lot of old-time Unix heads prefer it
> > for servers, for example).
> >
> > It *is* true that Debian has been more conservative about
> > changing C-libraries, but on the other hand upgrading from
> > RedHat 5.x to 6.x was hell in my opinion. When Debian gets
> > around to doing the switch maybe it'll go eaisier for
> > them. RedHat's tendency to ship beta (or sub-beta) quality
> > stuff isn't really a selling point in my book.
> >
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