Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:07, Nils Breunese wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:23, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
>>
>> wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Plz see subject.  I'd like to clean up my yum repo list as it
>>>> appears some
>>>> of the repos have disappeared.  Are there any new ones for truely
>>>> legacy
>>>> stuff?
>>>
>>> I don't believe so. Fedora Core 2 is dead, you'll have to upgrade to
>>> a newer Fedora Core version (or migrate to something like CentOS if
>>> need a longer life cycle than Fedora's).
>>
>> I was afraid of that, but the last CentOS I pulled, 4.1, was even
>> older
>> than much of this heavily tarball updated FC2.  I hate going
>> backwards &
>> then reinventing all these wheels again.
>
>Is this a desktop workstation or a server? If this is a workstation
>or a non-production server, why not just go with the Fedora flow? I
>run Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it's working just fine.
>
>If you really don't like upgrading your OS every couple of months I'd
>backup my data and do a fresh install of CentOS 4.4.

The last centos I pulled was 4.3 just a month ago, the kernel was in the 
2.6.9.  Thats at least a year old, and ieee1394 support is broken, still 
is for that matter.  Thats one thing I do keep up with, currently running 
2.6.18-rc7.

Is it new enough that I can then build a current kernel and install all of 
kino-0.8 and its utils, or am I headed (again) for dependency hell trying 
to edit a wedding from my firewire equipt movie camera and burn a vcd of 
it?  That would be the target job for me at the moment, the rest is 
convienience stuff.  This is the only box with a firewire card installed, 
and the rest are slower boxes.

I didn't know centos-4.4 was out, I may fire up azureas and nuke the 4.3 
dvd images I have now.


>However, CentOS 
>5 will be out in 6 months... :o) No immediate need to upgrade then
>though as CentOS 4.x will get full updates until Feb 29 2008 and
>maintenance updates until Feb 29 2012 (http://www.centos.org/modules/
>smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=42).
>
>Nils Breunese.
>
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