Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core (Business web hosting) and Red
Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 281 . The Fedora Extras repositories are automatically added to your yum and up2date facilities. So, for example, if you know that you want to install the abiword package, you can do so by simply typing yum install abiword as root user. Then yum grabs it and installs it from a Fedora Extras repository. Packages in Fedora Extras are still expected to meet Red Hat s stringent guidelines. This means that you won t find proprietary software drivers (such as those used with NVidia video cards or wireless cards intended for Windows systems) or software with questionable patent issues (such as MP3 or most video players). Another effect of the Fedora Core/Fedora Extras approach, however, is that thirdparty, RPM-based software repositories have a wider base of common software libraries and utilities to rely upon. For example, the rpm.livna.org repository (which includes many useful software packages that Red Hat will not distribute), depends on the Fedora Core and Fedora Extras repositories. Fedora Legacy Project In April 2004, Red Hat, Inc. officially ended support for Red Hat Linux 9, the last release of Red Hat Linux systems. That meant that Red Hat would no longer provide errata packages or gather bug reports for any Red Hat Linux systems. From Red Hat s perspective, you either had to upgrade to RHEL or upgrade to a recent Fedora release. The Fedora Legacy Project (www.fedoralegacy.org) came up with a third possibility: extend the lives of select Red Hat Linux systems. Fedora Legacy Project s charter is to offer software patches for select Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core systems beyond the end of life set by Red Hat, Inc. These critical fixes and security patches are necessary for an operating system to remain stable for at least two to three years. Without this support, companies and consultants who want to use Fedora Core to sell with their hardware or software products can t expect to have a stable OS to rely on for more than a few months. As of this writing, Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9 releases both have Fedora Legacy Project software repositories from which you can download available critical software updates and are continuing to be maintained. Fedora Legacy support for Red Hat Linux 7.2 and 8 has been suspended because of lack of community support. Those who are using 7.2 and 8 are urged to upgrade to 7.3 or 9, respectively. (Of course, upgrades to later Fedora releases may actually be the better way to go.) Fedora Legacy has also taken over support of Fedora Core 1 and 2. By following a few simple steps from the Fedora Legacy download page (www.fedoralegacy.org/download), you can use yum or apt tools to configure your system to automatically download and install selected packages. Fedora Legacy Project s Web site provides a lot of information, from a mailing list and IRC channel you can join to overview material you can read about the project.
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