http://www.silug.org/lists/silug-discuss/200405/msg00000.html

To: silug-discuss@silug.org, luci-discuss@luci.org
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 01:18:49 -0500

Since Fedora Core 2 will be out in a couple of weeks, the plan is for Red Hat Linux 9 to be EOL'd, which means everybody still running Red Hat 9 (or earlier) needs to make a choice now… Upgrade to Fedora Core 1 (or 2, but if you are running RH9, I assume you aren't eager to try large amounts of semi-experimental software), switch to RHEL, or start pulling updates from Fedora Legacy.

Personally, I think upgrading to Fedora Core 1 is the right thing to do. It's been rock-solid for me for several months now on many systems, and upgrades from various older versions of Red Hat (7.2 through 9) have been almost 100% painless. In addition, some of the features in FC1 (like exec-shield) make it particularly appropriate for servers.

I've posted updated instructions on upgrading to FC1 here:

http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/MigratingRedHatToFedora

(I'll probably remove some of the older information from that page later. The current stuff is at the bottom — "Steve's Other Answer".)

I'd suggest checking that page for a nicely formatted (not to mention edited for corrections) copy of the instructions, but here's a copy for reference: