FC2 EOL support concern

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Mar 15 21:56:11 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 21:52 +0000, Stewart Williams wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a dedicated server with an internet company that has/came with 
> fedora core 2 installed and I am a bit concerned about support for it 
> (patches, security, etc) now as FC2 is near end of offical support.
> 
> What are my options?
> 
> 1. Go with the Fedora Legacy Project and worry only when it becomes end 
> of life with them.
> 
> 2. Upgrade the server to FC3/4 remotely over SSH.
> 

While NOT supported, I successfully upgraded a server to FC3 via yum.
This was a fairly complex installation with SCSI RAID but it went quite
smoothly. YMMV!

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