[WBEL-users] Very stupid question, but....

[Wes A. Jones]

I've just discovered WBEL and centOS, and one or two others that are 
based on RHEL. After reading the archives, it appears that everyone is 
worried about updates and such. Which is a good worry. But just answer a 
stupid persons question. If all these "clones" are so close to RH, could 
you not simply use RH's updates? Or make your own RPM's? I come for 
years of Slackware (back when it was SLS), and yes, I'm used to doing 
nothing but compiling. And I have used RH for years as well (RH4.x as I 
recall). RPM's are great. I see things like Fedora as a flop. Not even 
sure why people are trying to expand that, RH9 was in fact the best 
distro in the RH series. Much like on Micro$oft's arena, Win98 ruled 
(still does in most cases). Now I've heard good things about all these 
clones, and I've heard bad things about all the clones. Everything heard 
is the same thing I hear when I'm on IRC. It's a personal preference. 
(Debian has something over Slackware, Slackware has something over SuSE, 
Gentoo rulz, yada yada yada). I'm not looking for a flame war like a few 
others on this mailing list appear to like to do. I'm just a simple 
admin looking for simple answers to questions I have.

Please keep in mind, I am "SEARCHING" for a good solution for my new 
project. I don't care too much about updates since I do that myself most 
of the time. But I am curious about all these "clones". Are they not 
cross compatible? Can they not use RH's updates?

While I'm asking questions...... Can WBEL upgrade a RH7.3 system without 
formatting the drive and loosing all the data in the dirs? I'm really 
not wanting to screw with all the user settings again. I have over 400  
users on my box now.

Thanks!

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