[CVALE] Base 64 Utility

[Jason Roysdon]

Terry,

CentOS works too nicely too.  It's nice and stable, and based off of a
PNAELV ( http://www.pnaelv.net/ ).  With the latest CentOS 5.0 you get
all the stable benefits from Fedora Core 6, plus you get yum updates for
7 years (until 2012).

And for the first time in ... a long time (RHL9) my laptop's Hibernate
works again right out of the box (yay!).

I ran FC6 on my second laptop until CentOS 5.0 came out.  The only
downside to Fedora Core (now just Fedora) is the fast refresh cycle (6
months).  So after 1 year or so you'll no longer be getting updates.  My
other laptop still running FC5 is about to lose updates since F7 comes
out in 3 days.

If you want a development box with the latest and greatest, run
Fedora... if you want a box that you can expect to use consistently day
after day, use CentOS.  I can't recall how many times I'd find something
not working in FC over the years (FC2-6) just to find yum breaking things.

Also, as soon as KBS catches up, all the Fedora RPMs you'll want in
CentOS will be available as well:
http://centos.karan.org/

With things like yum-priorities and yum-protectbase, you're relatively
safe (and can exclude critical stuff, or only allow the base/update
repos to install/update).

I've got images on a multi-homed server on a pair of DS3s:
CD images:
ftp://eagle.roysdon.net/pub/centos/5.0/isos/
DVD images:
ftp://eagle.roysdon.net/pub/centos.torrent/5.0/isos/

Many thanks to Pete and his PNAELV employer ;-p

-- 
Jason Roysdon
http://jason.roysdon.net/

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 19:07:35 -0700, Terry <terry at zinnianet.net> wrote:
>
>> I guess I need to update my 20 month old install.  :-)
>
> Surely you don't need to update the whole thing? Just get the newer
> coreutils, unpack into a chroot, copy the base64 into /usr/local/bin.
> That's one way. Another is to find metamail.
>
>> Terry
>> (Maybe I should move to Gentoo.  Right Eric?)
>
> Fedora would work too. It typically allows to grap ultramodern
> packages from Rawhide or whatever and retrofit them into older systems.
>
> -- Pete