fuzzylizard Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 Just a quick question: what is the best way to keep a non-supported distro like Red Hat 8 or 9 up-to-date? (RedHat 9 end-of-life is sometime this april). The reason for the question is that I am going to be putting together a server on which I am planning on installing Oracle, ColdFusion MX, Apache, PHP, MySQL, and possibly JRun or JBoss. In order to make my life easier, I am removing Mandrake (unfortunately) and installing Red Hat 9. However, Red Hat is stopping their support of 9 as of sometime this April. Therefore, it will be up to me to keep everything up to date. I am just wondering how people would go about doing this? I realize that I can use synaptic and apt-get and link that with either fedora or (another site that I can't remember right now), but are there other ways? Another question that I will have to consider is whether updates could break any of the major apps that I will have installed. I hate to take a step backwards from Mandrake 9.2 to RedHat 9 (or even 8), but it simply is going to make my life easier. Unless somehow has a tutorial for installing Oracle 10g onto Mandrake 9.2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 I heard that there is something called Fedora Legacy. The link is here http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFoxLSU Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 You could just use the stable branch of Debian. It's almost always kept somewhat up to date and you know it doesnt have an eod of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 Just move to Suse if you need something similar to rh and want updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted April 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 Allo very good points, but the software that I want to put on the box, and thus the reason for the change, is not supported under anything but Red Hat, therefore, I am stuck using Red Hat. I am most likely going to go with White Box Linux. It seems to be a well supported clone of RHEL 3. With it being a clone, software like Oracle, ColdFusion, etc will run on it. The advantages of using White Box Linux that I can see is that it is free, versus RHEL 3, and it is supported. Once the updates for RHEL 3 are released as source, they are packaged up and distributed for White Box Linux. Thanks for the suggestions though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 7, 2004 Report Share Posted April 7, 2004 suprise suprise, I have ran white box linux and it's a good clone of RHEL 3, I've ran that too and had to /me clears throat use whitebox apt repo to stay up2date if you know what i mean :wink: :wink: :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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