On Tuesday 06 March 2007 03:05:23 pm Jon Moss wrote:
I'm probably going to have to break down and upgrade from FC4 to FC5 or FC6. Or, find some new hardware, install a newer/different distro and migrate the databases, files and websites over to it.
From what I've heard, neither the 4-5 nor the 5-6 upgrade can be counted on to
work. We had to build 5 on a separate machine and migrate. When it came time to go to 6, I decided that as long as we were doing a full install anyway, we'd move to a distro with a longer life cycle, better upgrade support, and useful backports.
Unfortunately, I chose Mandriva 2007.
I note that Ubuntu's server is still Dapper in long-term-support mode, not Edgy. Perhaps if I'd gone with 2006 things would have gone better, and several of the bugs I reported have since been fixed at least in the "cooker" stage of Mandriva, but it was clear that many of the server-specific packages had never actually been tested prior to release.
Next server upgrade will be to Ubuntu, we'll see how that goes.