An year has passed and I am still here considering upgrading our 1.5 year-old IBM server from the vintage FC1 - what? FC1! Yes, I would admit that Fedora Core is cool but using it as a production server is stumbling in terms of regular system maintenances - not tweaking settings but updating and patching. It took 2-3 years for FreeBSD going from version 4 to 5, and at least I can easily find compiled packages for version 4 now. Compare to FreeBSD, people are no longer interested in FC1, they are switching so fast and chasing new FC builds eagernessly. I was left in the dust.Probably going for FreeBSD would buy me the peace of mind for at least the next 6-month or so. Then, again, I will face another challenge of backing up data and settings, clean installing OS, restoring data and settings, and fixing problems. Though the latter might take me 95% of the efforts.
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